Date: 18 August 2020
Written For: Swinburne University (LIT10003 Reading and Writing Genre Texts)
Format: Writing Exercise
Genre: Horror
Word Count: 421
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 3, the genre was horror, and the prompt was “clove”. That gave me the idea for a reverse-horror vampire story, where the vampire is the victim and the human vampire slayer is the “monster”.
Sam Huffer 