Writing Prompt: Meet Me at the Morgue -- A Fantasy Horror Story Begun in Tryon, NC

We had a great event at the Lanier Library in Tryon, NC on November 3rd. The event was pretty packed, and there were actually people standing through the presentation, which was amazing and wonderful.

Image via Amanda McCrohan

As promised, you can continue the story in the comments or go off and write it on your own. Use it as a writing prompt, or just something to get your imagination flowing : )

Title: Meet Me at the Morgue
Genre: YA Fantasy Horror
Plot type: Quest
Setting: Modern High School and Medieval

Setup:

Our main character, Buffy, is 17 years old. She is in band, plays the tuba, (i.e., has some muscles :)), is smart, pretty in a Sandra Bullock girl-next-door kind of way. Her mother died ten years ago of an unspecified disease for which there is no cure, and she has been raised by her father.

Our love interest and villain(ish), Tristan, works in the morgue, which is the family business. He is 18, and in a misguided attempt to save people, pushes those with the disease through one of two portals which his family has guarded for generations. One portal is located in one of the refrigerator drawers at the morgue, and the other is locker number 47 at the high school. Believing that the modern bacteria that caused the disease wouldn't survive the journey through the portal (why?) he sends people through, not knowing that the time period on the other side is full of leprosy and leprous zombies, including zombie dragons.

When Buffy goes through the portal (how? why?) he goes after her.

Obviously, there are a lot of questions in this set up. But it has the potential to be very fun! So take off with it, folks. Give us a story (or hopefully lots of stories) that will plug the holes and tell us what happens next. What does Tristan do to save Buffy? What does she do to save herself? Who's the Big Bad? And what happens when Buffy and Tristan start to have feelings for each other, but she realizes HE is the reason they are stuck in the awful time period in which they find themselves?

WRITE IT! : )

Have fun!