Pure Fantasy Island territory here - if you had the chance to live out the events of just one of your stories as one of the characters - which story and character from it would you choose? Probably this would be the narrator of a first person perspective story, but you could choose a third person perspective character from a story if you particularly liked it.
I've thought long and hard about mine, and eventually decided on my science fiction story from Halloween last year - 'Cindy's Close Encounter' - as the titular character Cindy. Cindy is a pretty blonde All-American girl who at the age of 18 in Spring 1959 attends high school in the Connecticut town where she lives with her parents and younger brother and has a handsome football player boyfriend Steve. On Halloween night Cindy and Steve attend the school's Halloween dance with their friends (also cheerleaders and jocks) and get abducted by a UFO, where the aliens ask them a series of questions and give the three couples an aphrodisiac serum and watch them having sex in their respective pairings. In the weeks after the alien abduction, the six students have all sort of strange things happen to them, such as the sudden ability to read and speak fluently in Latin, something none of them could do before.
The reason I chose this was probably because I liked Cindy as a character, I would have loved to have lived in the 1950s but it was before my time, I would like to go to the New England states but have never gotten around to it, and it appealed to my inner sci-fi geek - getting to go in a flying saucer and meet aliens, albeit humourless and somewhat unfriendly ones. I also liked the other characters from this story.
Runner up was my Loving Wives story 'Bad Things Happen On April 15' which is set on the Titanic in 1912. I'm a bit of a history buff and I love the Titanic, but much as I would love to see the beautiful lost ocean liner for myself, the narrator of this story - a wealthy young American man named John Prentice III - ends up in the sea when the ship founders, and only by sheer luck is able to swim to an upturned life raft and survive. A swim in the frigid dark waters of the North Atlantic Ocean at night isn't really my idea of a good time, which is why this one narrowly missed out.
So which of your stories would you choose and why?
I've thought long and hard about mine, and eventually decided on my science fiction story from Halloween last year - 'Cindy's Close Encounter' - as the titular character Cindy. Cindy is a pretty blonde All-American girl who at the age of 18 in Spring 1959 attends high school in the Connecticut town where she lives with her parents and younger brother and has a handsome football player boyfriend Steve. On Halloween night Cindy and Steve attend the school's Halloween dance with their friends (also cheerleaders and jocks) and get abducted by a UFO, where the aliens ask them a series of questions and give the three couples an aphrodisiac serum and watch them having sex in their respective pairings. In the weeks after the alien abduction, the six students have all sort of strange things happen to them, such as the sudden ability to read and speak fluently in Latin, something none of them could do before.
The reason I chose this was probably because I liked Cindy as a character, I would have loved to have lived in the 1950s but it was before my time, I would like to go to the New England states but have never gotten around to it, and it appealed to my inner sci-fi geek - getting to go in a flying saucer and meet aliens, albeit humourless and somewhat unfriendly ones. I also liked the other characters from this story.
Runner up was my Loving Wives story 'Bad Things Happen On April 15' which is set on the Titanic in 1912. I'm a bit of a history buff and I love the Titanic, but much as I would love to see the beautiful lost ocean liner for myself, the narrator of this story - a wealthy young American man named John Prentice III - ends up in the sea when the ship founders, and only by sheer luck is able to swim to an upturned life raft and survive. A swim in the frigid dark waters of the North Atlantic Ocean at night isn't really my idea of a good time, which is why this one narrowly missed out.
So which of your stories would you choose and why?
