Short Story research

Gifts To The Dark Gods-Thriller

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/GiftDark857.shtml

This is the first story i looked at. This story is all about a woman, Helen, who is obsessed with stealing things. it isn't clear why but as the story progresses we learn that it might be because of OCD. We also learn that she is very skilled at stealing things and goes by a very specific set of rules, and if she doesn't do that then she starts to get panic attacks. All of the things she steals are 'Gifts to the dark gods' in her mind. It is very obvious that she has some sort of disorder and it is interesting to learn what happens to her if she doesn't steal things.

The reason i was drawn to this story is because it is a very interesting idea, its not just a woman stealing things, she has to steal things (in her mind) to stop her from having wild panic attacks. And it shows the length that she is willing to go just to steal something.

There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella-Comedy

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TherMan.shtml

This is a very strange story, as the title says it is a man who hits another man all day everyday over the head with an umbrella. This is obviously a comedy but it is very interesting to see how the man reacts to it. At first he finds the man very annoying and wants him to stop. Like he used to keep him awake at night but at the end of the story he talks about how he has an awful feeling that if the man does leave then he wouldn't be able to live without him. This is an example of binary opposites about his feelings at the beginning and end of the story.

I was drawn to this story because i thought just like the short film 'Blackhole' this is very surreal. And it also shows us that at the end how the man worries that he wont be able to live without this man hitting him. 

An Uncomfortable Bed-Comedy

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/UncoBed829.shtml

This story is about a man who throughout the day suspects that his friends have invited him on a trip only to play a practical joke on him. In the end they do. This story shows his suspicions and anxieties about his friends very well and almost comically about just how paranoid he is about them.

I put this story on my blog i thought this would make a very funny short film. And also i think that the way that this boy feels is very normal for someone.

The underlying reason why i chose these stories for my blog is because i was interested in all of the and wanted to find out the ending. And also while i was reading them i was playing over in my head how it could be shot and made into a short film.