Two neighboring towns. One human. One fairy. Living peaceably with each other. But something had gone wrong. And it started with a papercut…
Music: “Level 1 (Loop)” by Chris Logsdon
Video description
Video Description: “The Parasitic Fairy Worm” Trailer. Duration, 39 seconds. “Level 1 (Loop)” by Chris Logsdon. Digital drawing. Top half of three humanoid figures. The middle figure is an ogre woman. She has pointed ears and two bottom canine-like teeth protruding past her lips. Her arms are crossed, body facing right, face forward. Flanking her are identical guards wearing sashes and holding a scabbard in their left hands. Their forms appear to be dissipating at the margins of the image. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Medical Fairy Tale,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “Two neighboring towns. One human. One fairy. Living peaceably with each other. But something had gone wrong. And it started with a papercut…” Lines from the story appear in sequence at bottom: “Magic is having no affect. We know what they are. That is, we’re able to see them. These things are microscopic, and they look like parasitic worms. But they’ve been sowing a different kind of chaos in each host, which made it difficult at first to determine whether or not all of these people even have the same infection.” Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. The title appears at center. A text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”
Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For the tenth year, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.
April Base Element:
🐉🧚🏽♂️ FAE-PRIL! 🧚🏽♀️✨
FUSION RECIPE
Base element for April: The Fae (Fairies)
Fusion Element: Paper cut and parasite
I started my brainstorm with the paper cut. It happens when someone is filing stuff away. I’ve had this exact paper cut, on the back of my finger, because I accidentally brushed against the edge of some papers. But luckily for me, I did not thereafter wake up to find bright pink lines radiating from the cut, and orange liquid oozing out that is definitely not blood. Not human blood anyway.
How I did the digital drawing for my story, “The Parasitic Fairy Worm,” from a sketch to the final image.
Video Description
Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Duration, 21 seconds. Digital drawing. Top half of three humanoid figures. The middle figure is an ogre woman. She has pointed ears and two bottom canine-like teeth protruding past her lips. Her arms are crossed, body facing right, face forward. Flanking her are identical guards wearing sashes and holding a scabbard in their left hands. Their forms appear to be dissipating at the margins of the image. Text at bottom reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays a portion of the starting sketch. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at middle. All text and final image fade to show the full starting sketch. Video transitions through several images showing sketch, inking, laying down of base colors, addition of shadows, highlights, and textures, and finally the addition of a background to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Parasitic Fairy Worm” appears at bottom. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears bottom center throughout.
Genre: Fairy Tale, Science Fiction
Tags: Dissipate, Examiner, Fairy, Parasite, Worm, Wylda
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