I wrote 2 short stories so far that I didn't hate enough to just delete again shortly after I wrote them.
Both are rather dark, I will include trigger warnings if you want those and also some more context about where I was when I wrote them, which you can read before or after you read the story as you prefer.
I never actually named the second one and I can't think of a name right now either, so I will just put "No Title" there for now.
If you do read any of them I would honestly love any feedback you have!
You can send it to "anotherluce@proton.me". Thanks :3
Horror, Body Horror, Suicide Ideation, No happy ending
I wrote Listening Post in march 2024. That was shortly after I finally had my coming out as trans with my first friends.
And while that was one of the best decisions of my life, at first it brought me a few hard months where I suddenly couldn't ignore my internalised transphobia from my upbringing and my self hatred away anymore.
The evening when I wrote Listening Post was an especially hard one. It was already way past my bedtime, I was extremely tired but did not want to go to bed because that would just mean having to get up again for work in a few little hours.
So I was tired, hated myself and everything else and just felt trapped in my body and my life. I was about to finally go to bed when I instead decided to just write something.
Horror, Dead Body, Unresolved Mistery
I wrote this story in July of 2026. I was in the process of once again falling into a depressive episode and already did not have a great day before.
So when I woke up at 4am, about 2 hours after I fell asleep, and had to go to the restroom, I obviously decided to make it even worse by imagining extremely stupid but at least at 4am, scary scenarios about things that could happen.
When I went back to bed I had woken myself up enough that I probably wouldn't be able to quickly fall asleep again. So I decided to just flesh one of those scenarios I had been imagining out.