We are bringing you a dark tale. A short story with an evil villain. Our story’s villain is a trash talking, sex obsessed, elderly, bitter woman who is seething with jealousy over a much younger, vivacious, successful writer and YouTube creator named Caroline.
Now, you’re probably thinking this evil, old woman would be named something sinister like Cruella, but ironically, her given name is Hope. Her name literally recoiled in disgust, much like the way many of Hope’s family members have. This self-described Staten Island gladiator moved to South Carolina about three years ago. Hope’s estranged daughter, Aurelia, took over her narcissistic mother’s old hoarded house.
The clean out process took her forever, but it had to be done. Years of hoarding crap and cats had made the place inhabitable to anyone other than recluse Hope. The house had fallen into severe disrepair. Hope was too embarrassed to let technicians or contractors in to fix things. Over the years, this caused severe damage to the house. The heat did not work in many of the rooms and rather than call someone, Hope bought space heaters.
Hope moved to Walterboro, South Carolina. Ironically, Caroline vacationed yearly on Edisto Beach, less than an hour from Walterboro.
It was not long before Hope cluttered up her small house with old junk and thanks to her compulsive online shopping. She is always trying to fill the void in her life and her soul (if she had one) with new small appliances and cheap coffee makers.
Right before her move, Hope became obsessed with a YouTube creator. This creator had everything she wanted. At first she tried to be friendly, but she could not contain her jealousy and evil nature. Hope worked her deception behind the scenes, but the creator was too smart for her and called her out. She thinks she is slick, but she isn’t. Hope utilizes the same transparent, manipulative methods she’s used for years. Anyone who knows her can tell you her next move. Another tell is her nervous laugh that precedes all of her lies.
Hope is always looking to screw someone over. One of her favorite things to do is to leave fake business reviews as revenge. Hope was very proud of this revenge mechanism. She even suggested it to that YouTube creator whose name in Caroline. It disgusted Caroline hearing Hope suggest such a sinister thing. Hope even suggested leaving bad reviews as revenge on a live streaming video. She pretended she was kidding when she received backlash for the suggestion. When that didn’t work and she was coming unglued, she claimed she did not know she was live and accused the creator of setting her up.
We are excited to bring you this interesting story. Maybe you will learn something from this tale. There are reasons people turn out like Hope. We will visit her failed marriages, horrible childhood, her failure as a mother and her inability to have any type of career.
These failures caused Hope to invent and fabricate the life she wanted to live. The only problem was none of it was real. This meant no one could meet Hope in real life. It also accounted for why she felt most comfortable going on YouTube with her camera off or focused on her bed. Hope spent much of her time in her bed. When she sent photos to friends, she was so ashamed of her looks; she put a big emoji on her face. Other times, she would share a photo from her youth that had long escaped her.
Did you love our preview? We will be bringing you the first part very soon, maybe tonight, so check back. After we tell Hope’s story, we will bring you the stories of many other internet harassers and bullies. Most of these people are legends in their own mind. They are really trapped them in their own homes for the most part. They try to combat their feelings of being powerless by becoming keyboard warriors. Let us know what you think about this new story in the comments.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.