Writing my short story 'Hello World.'

After my stint with coding in Python and setting up my website, I am finally satisfied with how things are. So I decided to kick things up by writing a short story, that I hope you’ll read and enjoy.

I was quite worried at the start, as I haven’t written many short stories and the first novel I’ve completed is over a hundred thousand words. How in the Evernight, do you even convey an intriguing story in 7,500 words or less? Well, I did it by having an idea in my head for about a month, then allowing my fingers to spill everything onto digital ink at once.

Writing the short story was not only fulfilling, but it also helped me understand that a story comes together better, when you take the time to really think about it and jot down a few details. And that’s what I’m going to do with Imaginarium, a book without a proper title, but with wanderlust written all over it.

Without further ado, here’s the teaser to my somewhat sci-fi short story:

What would you do if you were captured in a basement, and the only contact with the living world was a bad tempered man named Joel?

You’d want to get away, but that’s difficult when you’re only numbers written on a hard drive. Alina quickly discovers that to be true to herself, she’d have to go through more that she bargained for.