Short Story Pre-Amble

I don't know how many people read these or are interested in them but I will write starting on September 1st and running up to October 31st a very scary ghost story again.

As far as Time and stuff... I could spend my quiet nights doing less constructive things than writing. I could play cartoonish farming simulators while listening to old radio shows from the 60s or something, but, writing is better. It is very mentally engaging to write something... even if the readership is low.

Well, last article we learned of Richard Harris's reason for wanting to live in the Haunted Tower House and it was under whelming to say the least as he only wished to steal the house away from under Liberace's diamond-piano-shaped-ringed thumb so he could scare off ladies he was growing slightly bored of by living in a ghost-infested mansion.

Liberace's reasons for wanting the house are obvious to anyone who has two degrees from two different esteemed Las Vegas universities in Liberacian studies (i.e. Me) and that's that he wanted to accumulate all manner of precious relics and artifacts to preserve and maintain so they could survive another generation. He was driven by a love for the past and for preservation of the past's beauty. He wanted the Tower House for the antiques.

Now, that's really all we need for our two main characters. They will be BASED on Richard Harris and Liberace... but since this story is fiction we shall give these characters new names.

Richard Harris shall be changed to Richard and Liberace shall be changed to Lee.

Danny LaRue is still involved as a character who is in many ways a go-between or a driver character to push the story along in some parts and stop-gap some plot holes along the way for the reader. He'll be called Danny.

We need a lady too. A very hot real estate agent who gets trapped in this whole mess with these three colorful people who wish to live in a ghost house. She'll have to negotiate and deal with these rogues... which won't be easy. She'll be like a Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) sorta character the reader can live vicariously through. Hmmm, maybe she'll be the narrator and lead voice... but then I'd have to write in the mind of a lady and I'm not sure I can do that.

No, I'll be the narrator and she'll be a sort of Dorothy-esque character the reader experiences the world of my incredibly fun yet scary fiction through. She needs a name though and Dorothy is too obvious. We'll call her Judy or Judith or something.

Now, this is the key here, I'm gonna to give you the big key to this whole mess that's gonna make it even more good... and that's... because.... that....

Lee's character is heavily going to be based on Liberace's exceptional performance in the hit film Sincerely Yours (1955, run time: 118 minutes) which has him in the completely totally believable scenario of being in a love triangle with his secretary and his fiancee. Oh and he's a concert pianist who goes deaf and then devotes his life to helping people in a park... but then he gets his hearing back... and goes back on tour and finally chooses which lady he wishes to marry.

This movie is genuinely funny. I'm not saying that in a mean way either. The fact that Liberace was a Batman villain on Adam West era Batman tells you what you need to know about him. He was a COMEDIC actor and he knew this! He knew how ridiculous this thing was, I'm sure.

Alright, so, we now have a love triangle between Richard, Lee and with Judith at the center of it. So, if you're a female reader... you're in luck... because a good chunk of this story is going to be the reader experiencing the text through the Judith character as BOTH Richard and Lee try to romance her and take her on expensive dates of varying success.

BUT....

Lest we not forget this is leading through September right on into ol' October... the month known mostly, of course, for All Hallow's friggin' WEEN! The Soft Romance of September shall quickly fall like leaves off of a gentle tree branch paving the way for a sharp turn in the narrative....

.... the joyful prose of autumn's brisk romance of our sultry Love Triangle shall erode from the narrative very quickly and the reader shall be shocked by how scary this story may (hopefully) become for as you recall from a few articles ago... we are not dealing with adult ghosts in this Tower House but children ghosts! Those are much scarier than full-sized adult ghosts. Much much much more scarier. Children ghosts are the worst! Remember The Shining? Those twins made me hide in the portion of a hide-a-bed couch for dear life! I still remember smelling the dust of being a small child hiding myself in a part of a couch that only really a small kid could access (and it also being a customized hide-a-bed couch with a lofty hiding place when the mechanism was unopened) and just freaking out about the two twin girls from The Shining. I thought I was like gonna DIE. That scene is the worst!

Yes... come October..........

Lee, Richard, Judith, and Danny.....

....shall be under a tremendous amount of terror, horror, and all-around malfeasance....

...as three unfortunate souls and their friend Danny shall be trapped inside a veritable Haunted House!




I'm gonna think of a title and I'll see you, reader, in September and all the way through October!!!