Short Stories & The Heartache They Bring ME!

So I've been working on this short story for a collection called "Mad Like Me," and I'm not sure if I'm over thinking it or if it just sucks. I mean when did writing shorts get so hard? I used to write short stories all the time and now it seems like I'm worried about the plot, the ending, character development. I guess in a way that shows that I'm growing as a writer, but does that growth have to come at the expense of pumping out a bad ass short?

I'm just going to break down the overall idea of my short right here so I can talk myself through it.

Title: Unfit

We have three characters for this story. 

Nurse Sarah (MC)

Dr. Calvin Alexander

Donald Willaim Connor

The story surrounds Sarah who has requested Calvin's help in murdering Donald, a serial killer who murdered Sarah's daughter Dallas. Dallas was given up for adoption years ago but Sarah found her and had been watching her from afar. Sarah and Calvin work in a mental hospital and they helped get Donald placed under their care by making him seem unfit to stand trail. 

They place Donald in a closed off section of the hospital and have him strapped to a bed where they plan on playing a deadly game of "Do you remember?" Where Donald has to remember or know some detail about his victims and if he gets a question wrong or refuses to answer then Calvin will do something very, very bad to him. 

This game is all fine and fun for everyone except Donald and Sarah because Sarah has been lying about Dallas this whole time. Her daughter died years ago and she has created this fairy tale based on a young girl she met in the mall and began following until that girl was killed. Sarah is worried that Calvin will find out Dallas isn't her daughter and not only will he not want to date her but he will lock her up. 

So now Sarah has two choices, own up to what she did or let the killer free and hope Calvin kills him before any of her lies get out. 

So that did kind of help, I guess this is more of a twisted comedy, Sarah also hears a voice in her head, that as the story rolls on you realize she's talking to that voice and more or less telling her the whole story.

Well, hopefully, I can knock this out and get it to the publishers. I want it to come in under 10k, this is my first real deadline and it's freaking me out. I'm over thinking it because this run down seems ten times more simpler than anything else I was thinking today. 

Thanks for letting me get this all out.

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