For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!

This Week’s Inspiration: Kenku

Trigger Warning: Gore, Drug Use

A lonely traveller takes refuge in an abandoned church only to find it home to a bizarrely intelligent murder of crows. While at first enjoying the crows’ company and generosity, he comes to find the birds have a desire for something much stranger than a few loaves of bread and some shiny trinkets.

For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!

This Week’s Inspiration: Werewolf

Little Red Riding Hood is taking some food to Grandma’s house! But to get there, she’ll have to cross the dangerous, post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with mutants and psychos. And something even worse is watching, a monstrous shapeshifter named Wolfe!

For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!

This Week’s Inspiration: Mimic (Duh)

Trigger Warning: Gore

Note: This is the longest ‘short’ story I’ve written for All There in the (Monster) Manual so far by a considerable margin – 12,500 words in total. So, if you would like, I have made it available to download as a MOBI file you can download by clicking here! Totally up to you if you’d like to take advantage, otherwise read on below.

Trapped on an island of rock while the cars keep circling, Kylie and her bandmates were road tripping to their next gig when they were attacked by three strangers who refuse to leave their vehicles. Now it becomes a question of what will get them first, heat and thirst, or the drivers ready to run them down if they try to escape.

For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!

This Week’s Inspiration: Vine Blight

She’s killed the others. I don’t know if it’s better or worse that she did so out of ignorance or indifference rather than malice. My sanity verges on an abyss. My thoughts turn to vengeance.