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I loved the story until the very end. It’s such a little button to end on. “Oh, people are going missing, MTF found the creatures, and oh yeah 70 children died.”
Lovely.
Cliches covered:
- Compulsion effect that makes you do bad things/kills you.
- Spooky scary murder monster(s)!
- A doorway of any shape to a different dimension/timeline/world.
I didn't intend to write a Cliche-Con entry. Then this image popped almost fully formed into my head barely twelve hours ago. I wrote the first draft up within less than an hour; about nine hours later, Hippo was kind enough to revise it so extensively that he became a de facto coauthor.
Many thanks to Captain Kirby,
Roget ,
Tufto, and
WrongJohnSilver for their feedback, and here's to another year of writing SCPs!
And in less than thirteen hours! Short articles with cliches still have legs - many, many, many legs!
And in less than two days! A new personal best, and I’m super grateful to Hippo for polishing this absolute diamond in the rough!
The journey of a thousand upvotes begins with a single character.
(account deleted)The only question I have is about the whole "Old man" shape it can take. It never gets utilized in the SCP proper, as far as I can tell, so what's the point of it?
I'm probably missing something wildly obvious here, but it's 5AM so my poor old brain needs some help.
Combined with the keratin flaps, it makes the head of the centipede appear to be an old man in robes — a wizard. Throw in the call, and this "wizard" is giving children a "quest" to enter the "archway".
It is very clever set up for a con man. This old sage like creature is literally talking out of it's ass telling kids that their the chosen hero. This is funny in a Dark sort of way and an excellent cautionary tale.
The critter reminds me of my favorite anime monster, Elder Centipede from One Punch Man and the face stealer from Avatar the Last Airbender. The story also reminds me of a recent episode of The Owl House. It was called Witches before Wizards.
I like this concept, but I feel like it deserves more content. There are elements to it that are fun to visualize — like the centipedes' "enter the archway" announcements — but they only get the brief summary description, and I don't feel like that uses the uniqueness here to its full potential. Novote for now. Edit: Seeing it described as Series I throwback is fair, so maybe what I'm looking for just isn't this article's intended style.
This is some seriously minimalist Series I deconstructionist flash horror you've got there. This really should be added to the Flash Fiction Throwbacks list.
It really should, however, User-Curated Lists doesn't accept any articles in an active contest.
Afterwards, definitely — there should be enough good works in this vein in recent months to add another 25 to FFT.
Geez, there have been so many awesome team ups for this contest, makes me regret not joining in.
+1, guys!
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