Submitted a new short story to Vocal’s “I Made It Worse” writing challenge.
- aliciaspaintbrush
- 13 minutes ago
- 1 min read
This latest sci-fi horror piece, The Road to Hell, follows a tired night-shift janitor whose attempt to help a mysterious captive creature escape from a secret underground lab accidentally restarts an alien invasion that had been delayed for sixty years.
This story was written for the challenge prompt:
Write a confession about a situation where you tried to fix something and only made it worse.
I had a lot of fun balancing dark humor, escalating consequences, and cosmic horror elements in this one. Sometimes compassion and good intentions can become the most dangerous things in the room.