A woman helping her anxious friend through a work-related crisis, discovers something unexpected in the big boss’s closet…a doorway to a deserted dirt road.
Music: “Between two worlds” by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)
Video description
Video Description: “The Red Path to the Gray Cabin” Trailer. Duration, 40 seconds. “Between Two Worlds” by Nicholas Jeudy. Digital drawing. An archway at center with rough toothy edges, leading to a dirt road flanked by a barren landscape with gray clouds hanging in the sky. On either side of the archway are tall shelving units partly visible, containing various items, including handbags, boxes, high-heeled shoes, and a case. At bottom left the top of a stool on which lies a cell phone. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Fantastic Mystery,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “A woman helping her anxious friend through a work-related crisis, discovers something unexpected in the big boss’s closet…a doorway to a deserted dirt road.” Lines from the story appear in sequence at bottom: “As they drew closer, crept closer to the fork in the road, they saw the house more clearly. The wood of the house—the cabin really—was weathered and gray. They heard singing coming from the cabin. It was echoing so much, Simone couldn’t make out any words. ‘We’re taking the other path, right?’ Evie said. ‘Most definitely.’” Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. Animations: Dark flashing clouds and dark lightning flashes as the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and 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.
March Base Element:
🔍🕵🏽♀️ MYSTERY MARCH! 🗝🧩
FUSION RECIPE
Base element for March: Mystery
Fusion Element: Excessive belts, perfume, walk-in closet.
As this is the last story of Mystery March, I decided to through in a few different fusion elements to the main concept of a doorway or portal found in someone’s closet. The “what if” I started with was that a friend has just shown another friend a peek of something unexpected and incredible inside the walk-in closet of their newest employer, to whom they are the assistant to the assistant to the assistant. In other words, very low down the ladder of opportunity. So the initial task was something mundane, like fetching the boss’s lucky belt for some important presentation she’s giving. And of course, the initial theories are that there must be some logical, reality-based explanation for what they’re seeing…and feeling. Is it technology? Is it magic? And how can I get them to walk down that road when that is probably not what a reasonable person would do?
How I did the digital drawing for my story, “The Red Path to the Gray Cabin,” from a sketch to the final image.
Video Description
Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Duration, 22 seconds. Digital drawing. A stone statue of a snake curled around a succulent plant. The plant appears a slightly different color. The snake’s eyes seem made of blue glass. Along the edge of one leaf at top right are tiny buds interspersed with thorns or spines. The statue sits on an open notebook. At bottom right, writing is visible, partly covered by the statue. At top and partly obscured by the statue are typewritten words. Visible whole words read: “Base of statue: Scratches may suggest a pattern. Pattern of…Main…See Valdez…reference…Local.” Text at bottom reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays a pencil sketch of a human outline at center. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at top right. All the text and the final image fade to show the full starting sketch. The video then transitions through several images showing the sketching of the main figures; then the inking, the laying down of base colors, the addition of a color gradient as a background, and finally, the addition of shadows, highlights, and textures to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Serpent and the Succulent” appears at bottom. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears at bottom center throughout.
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy
Tags: Belt, Cabin, Dirt Road, Evie, Executive, Frannie Moss, Gray, Simone, Storm
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