Violent Delights

by Charlotte Anne Gaffney

“This is a horror story in the vain of American Psycho, where you are trapped in the head of a unhinged girl, unable to escape and witnessing the havoc she causes. The story is a therapeutic piece for the author. She harnessed lots of anger and pain from her first experience at university and explored them though the protagonist Violet’s world view.”

Charlotte is a second year Media and Communications student who is taking the creative writing practical module. She is an avid film watcher watching any film she stumbles across. Recently she has been diving into Japanese cinema and anime, which involves several re-watches of Kiki’s Delivery Service. She is a veracious reader, devouring novels that are translated fiction, deal with horror and mental illness. She puts these themes in her prose writing. She takes long walks around the nearby parks either binge listening to true crime podcasts or off in existential panic. You can locate her on Instagram @books_can_roar.