SVT "Evil" Stories

I started writing these SVT stories when I was about 16. I used to call them "evil" stories because they really turned me on, but since I was getting turned on by witches and demons and power-over, I felt weird about it. (Really wanted to work on them for Creative Writing Class in 10th grade, but was mortified at the thought of someone READING them. Or having to read them out loud, myself. Especially since they were essentially fan fiction for a book series I was embarrassed about reading). In retrospect, every time in my cycle, as a teenager, that I needed to masturbate, I was probably writing/re-writing "evil" stories. (I didn't own a vibrator at 16, had to get my jollies somehow).

Then one day I mentioned the "evil stories" to my psychologist at the time (they were mostly a secret: only my best friend Sa knew about them) and she was like, " 'Evil'... like Men and Little Girls??" and I was like OMG NO. *That* doesn't turn me on. Ick. I tried to explain that it was Sweet Valley twits and their babysitter was a witch (with supernatural powers, not a Wiccan) who was terrorizing them, because they were awful characters in bad literature... it didn't sound right. Piper and Tobias are supposed to be teenagers in my stories anyway, so that makes it not as bad, I think. (They don't do anything sexual to the twins and their brother, they just terrify/ bespell them, for funsies.) Although it gets a little sketchy with the scene in #1 The Babysitter with (demon) Tobias and Elizabeth. But that was toned way down from my original incarnation. He's a teenage hipster demon, not Tim Curry in Legend*. Also nothing creepy/sexual could happen in SVT, because they were 12, and even when Jessica lied about her age and tried to date a 16-year-old (Book #15), Nothing Bad happened and the guy just was embarrassed about it. SVT is far removed from real life, something I make fun of in my books. Obviously, because the publishers didn't want to freak out middle-school girls with Cautionary Tales. Not until Sweet Valley High, anyway, and even then, the twins (Jessica, mostly, and Elizabeth after coming out of the personality-changing coma) narrowly avoided rape/kidnapping/murder on what seemed like a regular basis, with no emotional scarring. In regards to that in SVH, just WHUT.

I sometimes think I should be writing Sweet Valley High parodies, because then the twins actually have the potential to be murdered (like Margo tried to do in The Evil Twin). But then there can be no supernatural stuff**, which is what I like the best. Also, they can't be killed either way, not for being annoying, at age 12 or age 16.

*I will probably end up talking more about Legend later... Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness and Robert Picardo as the swamp witch Meg Mucklebones: So Nifty
**except for the (stupid) vampire and werewolf trilogies. I will review the vampire ones on this blog since Robin Hardwick didn't seem to have as much fun as I did (and I was defacing them, not just reading/ reviewing them)