Happy new year. It's been a while. Seems like the posts i put up here has been about how it's been a while.
How's your first week of work? Mine is nicely wrapped up with my first story of 2010. A sadistic whack of a story - Lenny's Video
The hand-drill story was inspired by my recent search for a hand-drill. I remember when I was young, there were the convenient traditional types of hand-drills that worked like an egg-beater. Nowadays, i don't see anyone using that already. They use the powered by electricity one. Borsh has one that's powered by batteries.
The Lenny story was set up so that it seemed like he was filming something for a dating/match-making video. But it has a sadistic twist. He killed himself because he was sorry he raped his beloved, jenny, who could be his elder sister - Jenny and Lenny. Didn't want to be explicit about it, but to leave those in between the lines. Should I be more obvious and leave more clues?
That should be my goal for writing this coming year. I always writer riddles in the stories, but i never leave enough clues. This year, i'd be trying to weave in more clues. I'm also weaving in more details about the Singaporean setting - like in this case, reference to NTU and what not. Still, i suppose my stories are set with a very surreal note in general.
