u/dumbmusician

advice on how to write a body horror story

i am currently writing a story about stalking. basically, the plot is MC is being stalked by the ML and turns out, MC is not a human and actually lets the ML stalk because MC is stalking ML back. MC has another form and i kinda want that another form to be unsettling(?) so how should i describe it? my first thought is just making it like those analog horror thingy where only the eyes are seen but i dont think its scary enough and i think body horror would fit. i would appreciate any advice and thank you!

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u/dumbmusician — 8 days ago

hello, it's almost been a year since me and my ex broke up we don't talk that much anymore because I respect myself and honestly, I get sad whenever I see him online and talking to other people. we broke up cause he suddenly changed. from sweet to someone who doesn't even wanna try to talk to me. when we were at the breaking point of our relationship, he kept saying sorry and kept saying that it was his fault that we didn't worked out. i was so tired of seeing him say that to himself because he was still the guy i once loved. well, still love maybe idk. i decided to give him what he wants (cause before we actually did break up, he was saying stuff about how i deserve someone better and it would be better if we break up) and we went our seperate ways.

pero nung birthday ko last year, he reached out to me and we started talking again and he was saying he'll be better. he'll treat me better and he won't do it again. not even 2 weeks passed and he stopped talking to me again. lol. everytime na manghihingi ako ng closure and explanation sakanya all he says is sorry. i was so tired. i distanced myself from him out of respect for myself and for him. we stopped talking that much and minsan nalang kami magusap.

last time i confronted him i said maybe i was the only one willing to work our relationship out. he said maybe he was just not ready for a relationship that's why everytime i tried to fix things with him in the past, we end up just pushing it aside and he keeps on hurting me again. we started dating may 4., 2024. i stayed with him until may 20(ish) 2025. i was willing to stay with him. i literally cried so hard i almost died from being out of air when he said he wasnt ready for a relationship.

maybe i forced him? maybe i was too much? maybe i drained him? i said i will stop trying to fix our 'relationship' and stop trying to work it out with him. he said and i quote "my heart was ready but my mind wasn't." he then went on and said he needs to sleep. i said we dont have to talk anymore and his dumbass said he will TRY HIS BEST to text ME FIRST instead of WAITING FOR ME TO TEXT HIM FIRST. of course, staying true to his character, he didn't do that. he only started texting me first for like a few weeks and stopped completely. we still talk from time to time but now im trying my best and hardest to stop talking to him. it's been 4 days since we last talked and i havent replied to him and he hasnt messaged me since. he's being active again on socmed unlike when we were together. he was always offline. maybe i was the problem. just because i was ready for a relationship doesnt mean he was ready too. but he was the one who confessed first. i just fell harder.

just like laufey's lyrics, "it hurts to be something, it's worse to be nothing with you." i completely relate now because being with him hurts me but not being with him is worse. thabks for reading lol

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u/dumbmusician — 25 days ago