• Congratulations to the Class of 2024 on your results!
    Let us know how you went here
    Got a question about your uni preferences? Ask us here

Short story help plase (1 Viewer)

Status
Not open for further replies.

trano

New Member
Joined
Aug 25, 2008
Messages
5
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2009
DOOM: Repercussions of Evil

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Colonel Jason were not listened to and how it was too late. Gar too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he hot oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons,
"This is Jason" the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!"
So John gotted his plasma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the demons
"I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"NO! i must kill the demons" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons"
And then John was a zombie.
 

Aerath

Retired
Joined
May 10, 2007
Messages
10,169
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
No offense, sounds like the bad trailer to District 9. The belonging is sketchy, and what little can be drawn from it, is rather crap. =\

Try something more...sentimental, nostalgic and reflective. Less action, more though. Less guns, more catalysts for a sense of belonging.. etc etc.
 

Absolutezero

real human bean
Joined
Nov 17, 2007
Messages
15,077
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
Could fit in with a bunch of D Grade Grindhouse films...
 

lychnobity

Active Member
Joined
Mar 9, 2008
Messages
1,292
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2009
why is no halp?
Read:
No offense, sounds like the bad trailer to District 9. The belonging is sketchy, and what little can be drawn from it, is rather crap. =\

Try something more...sentimental, nostalgic and reflective. Less action, more though. Less guns, more catalysts for a sense of belonging.. etc etc.
In short: It's crap. You'll get 2/15 for it (in my books)

What do you want? A re-write? Coz it aint happening

1) Make it longer
2) Explore belonging, not guns and demons etc
 

carbonox

New Member
Joined
Aug 26, 2008
Messages
4
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
"No, John. You are the demons" haha, nice story. I don't think anyone here gets the joke though
 
Last edited:

Whitelegs

New Member
Joined
Oct 12, 2008
Messages
6
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Hahaha I did when I reached the end, it really made me laugh. :D
 

ibrian

Member
Joined
Mar 21, 2008
Messages
67
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
AMAZING, it really is possible to be so bad, you're good.
 

missquach

New Member
Joined
Aug 21, 2009
Messages
1
Gender
Female
HSC
2010
Omg your story made me cry! thats so touching.. i felt like i was the boy in the story, it felt so real!, the way you described space ship turns me on... keep up the good work ;)
 

carbonox

New Member
Joined
Aug 26, 2008
Messages
4
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Doom: Repercussions of Evil is a multi-layered, thoughtful piece of prose in which the protagonist is wrestling with the demons of his present and how they have manifested from his troubled past. We find that John Stalvern has not been able to let go of the painful relationship between himself and his father and subsequently is haunted by recollections of the warnings and wisdom he rejected from the man with whom he shared a broken love.

Further, we find suggestions of mental illness in the episode of psychosis we witness, brought on by the flickering of the ceiling lights which trigger his inner torment and tap into the pain of his past, causing a transformation even John does not yet realise has occurred. The severe paranoia John exhibits is clearly ignored by his fellow marines, shown by the disregard Colonel Jason displays regarding John's warning of demons inhabiting the base. This action is likely one of many which contributes to the psychotic release and externalisation of John's repressed demons. In this state of mental delusion, John's imagination creates a Jason counterpart who is fully aware of the demons and is willing to provide communications support to John in his quest, so that John feels he is not alone as the sole witness to his despair. John's certainty of victory over his demons is exhibited by their fearful cry of imminent destruction but the cyberdemon becomes the Jungian archetype of John's strongest, darkest Shadow self who is the only one willing to resist against John's attempts at emotional exorcism. Caught in an epic struggle between the personification of his pain and the John-self who struggles for inner healing, John's shattered mentality is unable to ascertain which is stronger and the ceiling collapses to create a stalemate in which he does not have to endure the stress of self-reparation. It is with the final twist of events in which we find Colonel Jason, the voice of John's higher self of distanced wisdom is the messenger to reveal John's true nature unto himself. The demons he externalised are indeed a creation of his own mental deterioration and it is faced with this fact that he reaches a turning point in his struggle for completeness - either he will either overcome the restrictive mechanism of self-preservation to become free, or he will collapse from the frustration of his inability to forgive the father he rejected so long ago. With the final revelation, we discover that John is simply not strong enough to individualise and become the man he laments the loss of. In the twisted reality of John's darkest insanity, he himself is transformed into a demonic being, the undead nature of his zombie form depicting the never-ending torment he has given in to suffer for the remainder of his mortal existence.
 
Last edited:

arks

New Member
Joined
Aug 26, 2009
Messages
9
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Doom: Repercussions of Evil is a multi-layered, thoughtful piece of prose in which the protagonist is wrestling with the demons of his present and how they have manifested from his troubled past. We find that John Stalvern has not been able to let go of the painful relationship between himself and his father and subsequently is haunted by recollections of the warnings and wisdom he rejected from the man with whom he shared a broken love.

Further, we find suggestions of mental illness in the episode of psychosis we witness, brought on by the flickering of the ceiling lights which trigger his inner torment and tap into the pain of his past, causing a transformation even John does not yet realise has occurred. The severe paranoia John exhibits is clearly ignored by his fellow marines, shown by the disregard Colonel Jason displays regarding John's warning of demons inhabiting the base. This action is likely one of many which contributes to the psychotic release and externalisation of John's repressed demons. In this state of mental delusion, John's imagination creates a Jason counterpart who is fully aware of the demons and is willing to provide communications support to John in his quest, so that John feels he is not alone as the sole witness to his despair. John's certainty of victory over his demons is exhibited by their fearful cry of imminent destruction but the cyberdemon becomes the Jungian archetype of John's strongest, darkest Shadow self who is the only one willing to resist against John's attempts at emotional exorcism. Caught in an epic struggle between the personification of his pain and the John-self who struggles for inner healing, John's shattered mentality is unable to ascertain which is stronger and the ceiling collapses to create a stalemate in which he does not have to endure the stress of self-reparation. It is with the final twist of events in which we find Colonel Jason, the voice of John's higher self of distanced wisdom is the messenger to reveal John's true nature unto himself. The demons he externalised are indeed a creation of his own mental deterioration and it is faced with this fact that he reaches a turning point in his struggle for completeness - either he will either overcome the restrictive mechanism of self-preservation to become free, or he will collapse from the frustration of his inability to forgive the father he rejected so long ago. With the final revelation, we discover that John is simply not strong enough to individualise and become the man he laments the loss of. In the twisted reality of John's darkest insanity, he himself is transformed into a demonic being, the undead nature of his zombie form depicting the never-ending torment he has given in to suffer for the remainder of his mortal existence.
Clearly this is a great story
 

trano

New Member
Joined
Aug 25, 2008
Messages
5
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2009
Doom: Repercussions of Evil is a multi-layered, thoughtful piece of prose in which the protagonist is wrestling with the demons of his present and how they have manifested from his troubled past. We find that John Stalvern has not been able to let go of the painful relationship between himself and his father and subsequently is haunted by recollections of the warnings and wisdom he rejected from the man with whom he shared a broken love.

Further, we find suggestions of mental illness in the episode of psychosis we witness, brought on by the flickering of the ceiling lights which trigger his inner torment and tap into the pain of his past, causing a transformation even John does not yet realise has occurred. The severe paranoia John exhibits is clearly ignored by his fellow marines, shown by the disregard Colonel Jason displays regarding John's warning of demons inhabiting the base. This action is likely one of many which contributes to the psychotic release and externalisation of John's repressed demons. In this state of mental delusion, John's imagination creates a Jason counterpart who is fully aware of the demons and is willing to provide communications support to John in his quest, so that John feels he is not alone as the sole witness to his despair. John's certainty of victory over his demons is exhibited by their fearful cry of imminent destruction but the cyberdemon becomes the Jungian archetype of John's strongest, darkest Shadow self who is the only one willing to resist against John's attempts at emotional exorcism. Caught in an epic struggle between the personification of his pain and the John-self who struggles for inner healing, John's shattered mentality is unable to ascertain which is stronger and the ceiling collapses to create a stalemate in which he does not have to endure the stress of self-reparation. It is with the final twist of events in which we find Colonel Jason, the voice of John's higher self of distanced wisdom is the messenger to reveal John's true nature unto himself. The demons he externalised are indeed a creation of his own mental deterioration and it is faced with this fact that he reaches a turning point in his struggle for completeness - either he will either overcome the restrictive mechanism of self-preservation to become free, or he will collapse from the frustration of his inability to forgive the father he rejected so long ago. With the final revelation, we discover that John is simply not strong enough to individualise and become the man he laments the loss of. In the twisted reality of John's darkest insanity, he himself is transformed into a demonic being, the undead nature of his zombie form depicting the never-ending torment he has given in to suffer for the remainder of his mortal existence.
well played. /troll thread
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top