Horror Story

The product of a tenth-grade creative writing assignment, this unfinished thriller was a split-setting parable about a post-nuclear wasteland, ostensibly with the conceit that the loner and the group would eventually unite. While the story makes no explicit references, there are shades of DOOM here, in structure and spirit. The male characters are depictions of students - the one, a thinly-disguised portrait of a class eccentric, and the other, a rakish, clowning fellow named John Manzella. (The part about "Boyzella" was inspired by actual events; he was called this by the school principal after a public bout of mischief.) I have no idea who Donna and Yusuke are. The writing was done in two installments, hence the two half-pages - and the two different, all-caps-lock fonts, which add to the dramatic tension.