I’m currently writing on a (somewhat) shorter project that’s kinda inspired by some horror themes. It’s a bit of a sci-fi story.
The basis of it is that it opens with the characters at different locations. They may not know each other yet, but their stories tie into this one book. It doesn’t really have any horror themes quite yet, just everyday life. I should mention the story is kind of alternate reality close to ours, but not quite. It’s a bit futuristic, but no flying cars or anything like that, and we’re still on good ol’ earth.
The premise of it kinda starts out small. We see that some news articles and radios-TV shows are speaking of the garbage collection around earth, and how we could solve it. Then, at the end of one of the chapters, something crashes down to earth one night, like a beautiful meteor shower. Unfortunately, nothing is beautiful about what has just happened.
Luckily, the meteor seemed to have crashed in a relatively uninhabitable area. Soon, the crash is investigated, and kept private. They discover quickly that this meteor isn’t very normal. In short, the meteor is described to give off a red glow at some parts, and have smallish holes which leak black fluid of some sorts (described to be oil like, but is most definitely not oil.)
The meteor is contained and they begin to study it. Everything goes well until one of the main characters who happens to be at the location (in total, I have no clue how many main characters there will be, but there’s going to be at least two characters at the research station) has a tear in their suit and is exposed to the black substance from the ‘meteor’ and thus begins to experience some odd side effects. They fall extremely sick, are taken to recover, and once they believe that character is safe, they begin work again.. unfortunately, this is not the case, and things are about to get much, much worse.
Not a completely original concept but if I learn animation I want to do something based around this.