I had this horrible nightmare a couple of weeks ago that I can’t get out of my head. So, I need to write about it to exorcise the demons from my brain. Long story short, it was about these weird ‘clown zombies’ that all looked like The Joker. For some reason their eyesight was bad so they hunted by sound and smell. In the middle of the night, they come to your house and slowly knock on the door and say “Come out” repeatedly. If you stay quiet they’d eventually move on to the next house. But if you make a sound or say anything, they’d attack the house like rabid dogs until they find you and eat you!
My first idea was to write it as comic book fan fiction. Initially, it was going to be a story thAt takes place in DC’s Gotham City. Batman was off tackling a big problem with the Justice League, so The Joke unleashed his latest clown toxin turning a third of Gotham City into psychotic clown zombies with face paint and smiles that reach from ear to ear. It would be a story about how the citizens of Gotham and the GCPD deal with an extinction-level event without the help of superheroes.
But that idea fizzled within a few days because I wanted to do something that was 100% my creation. So it’ll be the same story but without the DC Comics references. I don’t have the story fleshed out yet, but I know I want to recreate that fear I felt in the dream. Hopefully, I can get this written by the end of the year and maybe self-publish it just for my own piece of mind.