Stories by @helterskeletors

Those Who Trespass Against Us (Dance Remix)

Walt please just hear me out please

Odd Man Out

A former Wall Street yuppie tells all about his controversial career in finance.

Her Many Sons

GUILT REDEEMS ONLY THE MAD. A domestic tragedy framed as an ancient epic, in which a newly divorced man desperately tries to hide a dark secret from the world, whilst on a trip halfway across North America to visit his dying mother.

Sodom's Lot

I WAS YOUNG AND SWEET, AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED. In 1920's London, a widower professor pursues a seemingly unaged flapper he taught over twenty years ago, believing her inhuman.

Sisyphus

IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE END OF TIMES. A village off of antebellum Hamburg, Germany is ravaged by a flesh-eating disease, with a widower, a visiting noble, and her precocious cousin at the heart of the mystery.

Smile Like You Mean It

Frankie, a young, plucky corporate photographer, is given a different insurance provider after a change in employer, and, thus, is forced onto a new brand of antidepressant. As a friendship with his job’s receptionist blossoms, his relationships with his other peers falter. When circumstances become more dire, Frankie discovers evidence that suggests his medication has changed him in a catastrophic, irreversible way.

Milk Fish

I ONLY THREW THIS PARTY FOR YOU. After being rejected from nearly every school she dreamed of attending, aspiring filmmaker Joey is offered a spot at one of the top art schools in Texas- one she cannot afford. Desperate to attend regardless, she discovers a scholarship that would cover the first two years of her schooling, and is given a six month window to make a documentary. Despite her subject being that of two local artists, the camera quickly turns its lens to her.

Brother Pyrrhus

AM I MAKING YOU FEEL SICK? Now a college student, Solomon Conrad reunites with his older brother Martin in Milwaukee, and learns of a life he never knew of through a road trip back home.

Inbred

When a doomsday cult's prophecies are correct, Earth is left without a sun. In the eternal night, the daughter of the cult's leader, spared from their mass suicide due to her 'holy' status, is finally left to her own devices. As the world decays, so does she. https://www.quotev.com/story/16534956/Inbred/1

Rapture

THE BED WAS WARM, BUT I WAS SO, SO COLD. A sheltered young man's life is torn apart when he's abducted by aliens. Loosely inspired by the stories of Travis Walton and The Hill Family.

Baby Blue Milk

LOVE, LIES, AND ICE CREAM. In the early 2000's, a middle aged lawyer quietly exploits an ice cream company and its owners after defending them in an E-coli lawsuit. Based off the epic poem "Beowulf".

Camisado

In 1976, three years after "The Exorcist" sent the world into religious hysteria, Vietnam War veteran Father Ewell Wham is losing his faith. He's become somewhat of a performance artist- appeasing families with quick, sham rituals to 'exorcise' what he never believes is ever actually supernatural. When he's called by a fellow priest to exorcise a wealthy Manhattan resident, his doubts about his priesthood are flipped on their head, having found something truly other-worldly about Sybil Godgifu.

Partition

A CASUAL AFFAIR. After moving to Paris on a whim, a young tailor miraculously finds work with a world-revered designer. As the city swallows him, so does his job, weaving a web of doom around him that threatens to collapse.

Act of God

WHAT A GLORIOUS SET OF STAIRS WE MAKE. Following a devastating tornado, a famous writer returns to his hometown to find it shattered worse emotionally than physically.

Little Death

WHO ARE MEN TO PLAY GOD? WHO ARE ANGELS TO? The politics of the angel hierarchy and its members are examined through the lens of a guardian angel engaged in an abusive, forbidden relationship with a human.

Dogmouth

RUN THEN, CHILD. YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME FOREVER. Martin McKenzie, a teenage gas station cashier on the outskirts of Houston, is drifting after graduating from high school. When his mother, Alex, announces her pregnancy, his unborn half-brother begins appearing in both his nightmares and hallucinations, taunting Martin into getting revenge on the music teacher who abused him in the fourth grade. https://www.quotev.com/story/16181135/dogmouth/1