"One short story I wrote in high school, was about a high school kid who got into habitual drug use and then drove his car off a cliff.
I got an A+ for it, but it wasn't the kind of thing I wanted to show my folks--especially after just getting my driver's license.
What do you say when they ask?"
Since your parents were supportive show it to them, just remind them that it's fiction and not something you plan on acting out. We actually had a teacher tell my husband we should get our son into counsling (sp) based on a story he wrote for her class. She said it was disturbing, and he needed help.
He was in 7 or 8th grade. The story was about a boy, or group I forget, taveling across the country any way they could. Hitchhiking, jumping trains, whatever. There's murder and mayham in the story, and apparently (I didn't get to read the story) it was very graphic. Heads rolling, blood gushing, that kind of thing.
My husband looked at her and asked, "was it well written?"
teacher, "I suppose"
husband, "what's his grade on it?"
teacher,"A"
husband, "I don't see a problem"
teacher, "he's disturbed."
husband, "doubt it. just creative, his mother is too"
I wish we could've read the story, but for some reason the teacher didn't give it to us, or return it to my son. I had to ask him about the story, he couldn't remember all of it, he'd written it during class. Not a lot of thought went into it, he was just doing an assignment.
Although, I suspect some thought did go into it, and he wrote the bloodiest, goriest thing he could just to freak her.