Date: 11 August 2020
Written For: Swinburne University (LIT10003 Reading and Writing Genre Texts)
Format: Writing Exercise
Genre: Gothic, Fantasy
Word Count: 458
Author’s Note: From week 2 onwards in Reading and Writing Genre Texts, each week we were given a genre and a prompt and told to write 300 word stories and put them online on Canvas for discussion. Mine are speed drafts that I’ve touched up a little bit, so they’re less refined than they could have been, and most exceeded the word count. Because I’m a fantasy nerd, I combined the weekly genre with fantasy unless the genre was already fantastical or if fantasy was incompatible with the story I thought of.
For week 2, the genre was gothic, and the prompt was “shadow”. As I’m sure anyone who has watched Yu-Gi-Oh!‘s Millennium World arc would be able to tell, this piece was heavily inspired by the scene where Ryou Bakura flees into a church to try and escape the spirit of the Millennium Ring.
Sam Huffer 