The Monster Beside Us [BoyxBoy]

F.A.Q.

Hi my beautiful lovely cheese-filled pizza crusts! Before we get to the answers to your many questions, I would like to talk about the book a little bit. So the idea of this book started with the ending. I knew what I wanted, I knew what I wanted to happen, and from that I created the bunker.

All of this happened last year while I was working on my other series "A Little Insane". The Monster Beside Us is actually supposed to happen right after book 3 of ALI ends. In that book, my character witnesses nuclear explosions. He also lives in Bellumstone, and the beacon that Lucian finds is a few miles away from this character's location. But ALI was abandoned and I never got to write this, but I did explain it when I announced that I was going to be leaving the book unfinished. You can even go back to it, it's the last chapter of the third book "The Dark Prince" and you will see I talk about the nuclear bombs.

The reason there are so many plot holes and questions left unanswered is because this book was supposed to be a full-length book. It wasn't meant to be a short story of only 6 chapters, but I tried my hardest to make every chapter count and fill in as much information as I could to still create the shocking ending, and hopefully have it make sense. I think I did well.

I wrote the first 5 chapters in less than 2 weeks. I did NOTHING for those 2 weeks but write write write write. I spent day and night, with a billion tabs open and dictionaries and thesaurus and everything I needed to finish this book. I hit a major block on the last chapter, because it's the most significant one. It took me a month to finish writing it, but for you guys it was only about a week or two, it ruined my schedule. I wanted to post 2 chapters a week from the start of the month, but I was still able to finish before the month was over, so I'm still proud of myself for getting it done.

I was scared when I was uploading the first chapter because of the new American Horror Story season. I didn't want to get comments comparing the two when I had been working on this story for over a year, but I knew that once you guys read the entire thing there would not be such comments. The story is very different than this AHS season.

One thing I regret is not making the story scary enough. Most of the horror I had to get rid of because I couldn't fit it in the short-story format. The full length one would have actually been scary. There would have been over 20 chapters of madness all leading up to the same ending. You're probably wondering why I didn't make it full length. I wanted to write something new, especially for Halloween, and I knew I wouldn't be able to do it in time. And if it was full length, it would have been taken me WAY longer to write and post. You'd still not hear anything about it till next year. I haven't written new material in a very long time, so this was my only option.

So here is the most important part that you need to know. The story is not over, not quite. I've been working on 3 short stories, all in the same universe. The next story I will be releasing is called "The Blood Witch" and it's a prequel, sort of. This story takes place before the bombs. It will answer even more questions about the universe that I don't answer here.

Why all these short stories? Because for a few years I've been working on a huge series inspired by A Little Insane. These 3 short stories are in the new universe of A Little Insane, not the old one on Wattpad, but the new one I'm going to be publishing. So these stories will give you information that you won't get in the official books when they are out. Hopefully when you read all of them and the books come out, you'll want to get them. But this is mostly for my readers on Wattpad.

You can actually go to my profile and see the names of the books I'm working on in my "coming soon" list.

Now to the questions!

The nuclear bomb, the war, the helicopter: Yes, the United States bombed itself. Why? To destroy the monsters pouring out of hell. What does this mean? You will have to read the next book. In The Blood Witch, you will be a front row witness to the entire event and why. The helicopter was hit by Vincent in his smokey form. Lucian described the smoke as cold and not smelling like anything, because it wasn't smoke from the engines. When Vincent escaped hell, he was just roaming, when he hit them in the air. He killed the mom and the baby first, then the father died, but Vincent still took his flesh.