Author’s Note

I wrote “Watch Me As I Bleed” for the August 2008 writing challenge at Absolute Chaos. That month, each author who signed up was challenged by a fellow writer or reader to write a kind of story they'd never done or something outside their comfort zone.

My challenge came from Rose, and it was as follows:

I challenge Julie to write a very violent horror story.

3/5 of the backstreet boys MUST die.
The killer cannot be a Backstreet Boy but must be a celebrity. A human one lol.
There must be at least one graphic death scene
It cannot be a dream

And I believe that about covers it.


There was also this stipulation from Mare for all challenges:

None of these stories should exceed 3,000 words. Most challenges I find are working best with a smaller word count.

I deliberately ended the story on exactly 3,000 words and left a cliffhanger.

Three years later, I finally followed up with a sequel that tells the rest of the story I intended to write: In Pieces.