SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #14: SOMETHING NEW

[queenslayerbee]

Try something new. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Today I posted a new entry of my author's newsletter. This time it's a short story (around 5k) that could serve as a "prequel" for one of my ideas, "Underground Elysium.

A visionary vampiress, belonging to a matriarchal society of vampires with praying mantis-like habits, saw the apocalypse as an opportunity to subjugate humanity and elevate her species in a new world order, after the outside world became inhospitable to humans. Between the choice of risking falling prey to the walking, rotting corpses that roam the exterior, and a life of servitude under the civilised blood-sucking monsters underneath, many submitted to the second option. Nonetheless, there’s those even among her own that don’t appreciates living under Lucretia’s iron fist; around every corner a conspiracy against her brews, right as election season approaches.

The story offers a window to the beginnings of Lucretia’s dynamic with Dana, the main antagonist, and I really enjoyed writing! It's also the first time I share something longer / self-contained of my original writing, so I am excited about that as well.

To finish this off, I'll let you with some picrews I made of the characters. I posted Lucretia's (left) in another challenge, and ended up making Dana's (right) afterwards.