Malice by A. Havelock
Elise Brink keeps to herself.
Even as a child she rejected the company of her peers, scarred by the memory of a terrifying experience she once endured on the playground of her elementary school. She finds no comfort in her distant, mourning mother, whose cold indifference has plagued Elise ever since her father's tragic death ten years prior. So the troubled teenager is usually left to her own devices, forced to deal with the growing darkness that she senses within herself on her own.
"she felt searing white rage well inside her thin body"
Elise has been away at her first year of college, but an unexpected change of plans for break led her back to her childhood home in the small town of Ironwood in Michigan's upper peninsula. Isolated on the fringes of wilderness with her estranged mother and an uncle damaged by the terrors of war, Elise finds solace from the tension in the walks she takes with her Bernese mountain dog, Tuli. But it is in these silent woods that Elise and Tuli encounter something frihtfully unexpected on a cold winter day.
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Deciding how to remediate Malice proved to be a difficult challenge. Because I had chosen to write only a partial selection rather than the entire novella, remediating it into another form required visualizing the complete project. The plot outline that I drafted before first writing Malice proved to be a valuable reference point throughout the remediation process, although I had some trouble settling on a project format. When I wrote the proposal for project three, I initially thought I was going to create a movie poster, but after discussing the matter with my instructor as well as my peers, I ended up choosing to film a book trailer instead.
Making a trailer for a horror novel was much more challenging than I had pictured it being, mostly because I wanted it to be dramatic and scary (or at the very least unsettling). This meant that I had to take myself seriously, which is something I rarely do. But I enjoyed learning how to use iMovie successfully, and in the end I think the trailer turned out halway decent. Based on the example of Stephen King's book trailer for Doctor Sleep, this is my promotional page for Malice.
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