Banalworld

WARNING

(aka the foreword)

Okay, so, uhm, yea. Hi-my-name-is-Hazel, and I'll be your host this long, long evening. This is me revising the totality of gjhngdn-something something, because I thought polishing it up would do it a world of good.

First off, yes, this little bugger of a tale is a self-insert. That said, GIVEITACHANCE! It gets better as it goes along, promise. I try to write myself true, because I have issues and if I tried to gloss them over all my friends would notice anyway. So there they are, me in all my indecisive, spaz-prone klutzy un-glory. I hope you're at least entertained.

Secondly, this started off as a life-insert- hell, it wasn't even supposed to be a horror, it was written as a comedy for my friends and just sprouted blood and guts. I went with it- what can I say? Horror's much more fun to write, especially using a character I know as well as myself (maybe because she is myself, but moving on...).

Anyone whose name is in this (other than mine) will probably read this and think, "I don't act like that," and, no, you probably don't. Either a) you're a minor character and therefore needed to, like, do whatever I needed my minor chars to do or b) your name is taking the place of someone else's from the first draft, because I think you're cooler. Changes have been made... almost accordingly. Also, I probably have some crazy backwards idea of how you'd actually act in a crisis, so please don't hate me for making you look like a pussy or an asshole or something. It's how the pen flows, y'know?

(No, that's no excuse for poor writing, but three-fourths of the people mentioned won't even read this so I'm not worried. This is just me saying "you guys are important to me THEREFORE I'd like to fictionally throw you into a situation of hell". Heart you guys, for serious.)

Thirdly, this story is by no means perfect (don't make me point out why, that's rip-your-nails-off painful), but it was a great learning experience and a hell of a lot of fun to write. I hope you enjoy reading it because I had way too much fun slapping it together.

Oh, and don't hate me for all the shameless allusions (more like downright theft of concepts, but whatever). I really, really like Silent Hill. And all that other stuff I obviously took from. I tried my best to add my spin and hope you like the twirling.

Thanks.

- kwaieht