User blog comment:AB1997/Where Did You Get the Inspiration forYour Pastas?/@comment-26326346-20150917071327

When I try to come up with a story, I do so with the intention of trying to take a bad situation and make it the worst that I can.

Tornado Tango came about due to all the tornado warnings/watches my area was having. I ended up asking myself what could be worse than dealing with a tornado.

The Nature of Dreams was inspired by a couple of bouts I had with Sleep Paralysis.

The Intrusion materialized when I considered what a thief's worst fear might be. I ended up having the thief enter the house in a way that I had witnessed in the TV Show "It Takes A Thief".

Boulder City Prison came about after I read Prisoner 959 and realized that it was the first prison based pasta I had read. When I started, I set out to make as open ended an ending as possible and to try to really surprise any readers with the ending.

Closet Monster was something that I had thought up back in college for the most part, I had very few blanks to fill in when I wrote it five years later. It was the monster movie that I would have made had I been able, my way of a scary movie if you will. It took some inspiration from the film Alien in terms of the beasts ability to spit out stuff to repair the floor (I took the Xenomorph's acid and reversed the effect of it).

The Hissing came about when I had read of a certain creature that could go into computer towers to keep warm, this caused me to constantly look at my laptop's many ports out of fear for a while.

Familiarity was born when I thought of how we sometimes don't truly know those that we interact with, this came about when a neighbor got arrested for doing sexual things to little girls.

Gumjaw happened when I was trying to think of how vulnerable one might be if their car broke down in the desert highway. It was also a bit inspired by Van Helsing.

War-Torn was inspired by the Red Gum song "I was only 19" and Koromo and Empy's Constest.

Internal Matters was inspired by Frankenstein, but with the twist of taking people's body parts and replacing your own with them.

The Endeavor was inspired by BanningK1979's contest, literally.

The Cropping of Life came into existence when I thought about how creepy cornfields could be and how crop circles happen and why.

That's how all of my current stories came to be and their inspirations.