The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
This terrifying tale, Knock, was written by Fredric Brown based on a plot by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. It’s a little story with a big history.
Seeing this yarn as a challenge to myself because I do write exceedingly short stories I wanted to outdo or out little perhaps Brown’s vignette. The bin was overflowing with discarded foolscap of inferior text and threatening to drown me with paper. Struggling to breathe over the sea of A4 at last I finished my saga.
I tap your shoulder. Boo.
These five little words are cinematic in their scope. Consider it, how many times has the camera frightened the audience by giving them a sudden jerk by revealing quickly an unknown entity in their midst. This trick is called in the game- the jump scare. My “jump scare” short story may be filmed, we’ll have to wait and see. The text is frightening enough what will it be like accompanied by creepy music?
My publisher informed me that Quick Books are interested in my work. Quick books are a new company that specialise in condensing major pieces of fiction making them accessible for readers that don’t have time to complete the full novel. Therefore they will be printing an abridged version of my tour-de-force. I am quite happy to re-print the Quick Books adaptation here for your delectation.
Boo.
Boadicea's Chariot 
there there, take another draught and lie down!
I think some of my literary efforts would be better condensed into Quick Books format, JW.
Would you please oblige with the creepy music? 😉
TR: Strictly for the avoidance of doubt, Quick Books here in the US is a small business accounting software package marketed by Intuit, in it’s earlier manifestations it it was indeed something of a horror story but I must say as a user for the last few years it has been as user friendly as a well trained dog.
Ara, you know what my taste in music is like. You almost got yourself a doom metal tune from Black Sabbath uploaded. 🙂
LW. Drat. let’s hope QB don’t litigate on this boogate scandal.
Dear JW, I realise the danger of leaving the musical choice in your hands. 😉
I’d sort of prepared myself for the risk.