This is my first attempt at live storytelling. A totally different skill set than writing stories, and not as easy I thought.
This is based on a Grimm’s Fairy Tale, “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was,” which ultimately teaches us that fear is in the mind. A great lesson, especially in today’s hyper-aware online world.
This story appears as “Never Fear” in my book, Black At Night. The antagonist is a storyteller at the Sterling Renaissance Festival–a real place, and one of my favorite places on Earth–and this story is on his set list.
It’s a funny case of art imitates life imitates art, because I first started thinking about telling stories live sometime during Covid, then wrote this book with a storyteller in it whose last name is my first name, made a Renaissance festival costume from scratch that is essentially a bard and with the name of my storytelling show–“The Witching Hour–” as a major part of it, and now I’m doing it for real on Twitch.
Follow that one if you can.
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