Story of the Week #3 – Roosterville

This is my third Story of the Week, and this one was by far the hardest to write. I think it’s because I actually had a plot that I wanted to use, and a pretty complicated one (by SOTW standards, at least). It has issues, but I think it has, at least, a lot of potential.

I took my first Story of the Week, “On the Road to Orlgrunt”, to my writers’ group this past week. The consensus was that while it wasn’t a great story, no one would become upset if they saw it in a fantasy magazine. They did give me some solid ideas for improvement, though, which makes me happy.

It was my online buddy zarchasmpgmr who pointed me at this article, and suggested that perhaps I could do something with it. This is the story that resulted from that. It’s another bit of backstory for one of the main characters of The Solitude of the Tentacled Space Monster, and I think it shows that I’ve been watching a lot of The X-Files lately. The story’s beneath the fold, and commentary follows the story.

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