Rune Morose• Show stories

I think the most compelling source of inspiration is the history of humanity, and indeed of the universe itself. You won't find a tale more dramatic, more complex, more tragic and glorious, than the collective yarn of mankind. The mythology of our ancestors reflects this, peppering the foggy years of distant prehistory with creatures both heavenly and nightmarish in nature, heroes and villains that stick in mind even millennia after their deaths, and places, wars and voyages lost to time's own memory.

...However, ancient things do not always die. They lie, forgotten and sealed away from the sunlight, dreaming of their former glory and of a time when they might return to once again shake the world's foundations...

I'm here to wake them up.

-Rune Morose


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On My Works:

I write primarily horror/weird fiction, influenced by a myriad of artists and sources from all different mediums; everything from the modern to the mythical. I aim for originality and new quirks in a realm not noted for it.

I think the best stories I have completed thus far are Creaking, The Window, and The Lemurian Hourglass. I am suddenly devoting a lot of my time to The Pale Girl again, as it is rapidly reaching novella length.

All of this said, I have been branching out recently; Appurtenance is my first foray into humor, so I encourage those with the stones to give real, constructive criticism to go in there and tear me a new one.

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98% of StoryWrite users would kill themselves if Hot Topic had a stupid t-shirt telling them to do so. If you're one of the 2% who are tired of seeing idiotic messages such as these all over this website, tell everyone to be original for once and stop reposting this garbage.

ALSO: If I see one more profile with "My name is Sarah/I am but three..." on it, I am going to go on a lifelong mission to single-handedly abuse every three-year-old girl named Sarah that I can get my hands on. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that child abuse is wrong, it's hardly a revolutionary idea. You might as well put "don't kill your neighbor's dog and violate its corpse with a wine bottle" on your page. WE KNOW.

Oh, and you are NOT Japanese. Your name is NOT "Kigume" or "Ryu", it's probably "Gretchen" or "Stewart". So shut up.

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Trophies:

GOLD

"Forever" in Contest: Repulsive Glamour
"Turmbaig" in Contest: A Brave New (open source) World.
"The Window" in Contest: All Hallows Eve!!!!!-Just come inside......
"The Question of Dominance" in Contest: War, Werewolves, and Vampires oh my!

SILVER

"The Window" in Contest: Asylum Worlds
"Ride of the Oskorei" in Contest: Myths and Legends, Gods and Goddesses
"Fire Woman" in Contest: To Our Darling Original Characters...
The Night Walker in Contest: MORBID! Freak me out!
The Arghoul and the Desert in Contest: enter anything

HONORABLE MENTION

"Maniac" in Contest: Death....
"1371: No Admittance" in Contest: I HEART STEPHEN KING!
"The Question of Dominance" in Contest: Vampires, Werewolves & Witches

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MY PUBLISHING CREDITS: My story, "The Question of Dominance," which collected a couple of shiny trophies on this site, has been removed as it is going to appear in Issue #5 of Black Ink Horror magazine, due out sometime in 2008. Head to www.blackinkhorror.com to find out more about this excellent new magazine.

"A Hyperborean Funeral" appeared in the 2007 edition of the Indiana University Southeast Review.

"The Lemurian Hourglass" will be appearing in the 2008 edition of the IUS Review.