Currently working on writing out scenes for a TTRPG campaign, but kicking around ideas for a horror short story. This Drifter is walking on the side of the road, gets offered a ride by this super rich preppy looking dude, promise of free food and a warm place to sleep. Drifter accepts and goes with Pretty Boy back to this lavish compound, like acres of isolated greenery. Drifter meets Pretty Boys family, mom, dad, brother, sister-in-law, mouth breathing children, catatonic grandma, they have dinner, quiz the Drifter on shit that essentially circles around “would anyone miss you?”, dinner finishes, Drifter showers and prepares to bed down, when the family turns out to be {insert monster type here, can’t decide between vampires, werewolves, garden variety psycho killers, etc.,} and they decide to dispatch the Drifter. The twist is that the Drifter is actually a far more ancient evil, like Elder Gods, Lovecraftian horror, in a human form as a lark. Family then goes on the run from the Drifter, trying to escape his power and ravenous hunger as he hunts them down one by one, praying for mercy. Just haven’t gotten around to starting it yet.

Stuck in the planning phase of a novella (book? novella series?) about space outlaws with themes of community, escapism, and impossible dreams