At Long Last...

Finally! I at last managed to get a new story written and posted to the main site (Scared Stiff). This is the one I mentioned a few posts back which was meant to be a satire of spiritualists and mediums. Well, it's almost about that! As usual,it went off at something of tangent. Indeed, it went through several transformations. For a long time it was going to be a parody of those Most Haunted type ghost-hunting TV programmes, focusing on a TV ghost-hunting team's investigations into a supposedly haunted house. However, I kept feeling that it was too much like Pornogeist from a couple of years ago. In the event, the TV series background remained, but with the focus shifting to one particular team member and his 'special powers'. Whilst a second character does get a look-in toward the end, a third - a defrocked Catholic priest who advocates beating the sin out of those possessed by evil (such as homosexuals), with a large wooden cross - was written out. These latter two - and maybe the haunted house - might well feature in a future story.

The reasons for this story taking so long to write and post are many and varied. Suffice to say that I've endured a pretty shitty fortnight both at work and at home, with a succession of minor disasters constantly interrupting my attempts to write. These included my bloody printer dying on me at the most inconvenient time, and the waste pipe becoming detatched from my kitchen sink. Still, these things are sent to try us. The main thing is that the story is finally complete and has been published. All I have to do now is start writing the next one...