Catfight in sequester house

I found a new market for a long essay I’ve been working on for quite some time now. It was originally intended for a Discovering Modern Horror edition that never materialized. After NECON, I was inspired to pick the three- or four-year-old essay up again, updated it and revise it. Thanks to some conversations I had about it at the conference, I now have an interesting new place to send it when I’m finished prettying it up.

I’m enjoying Ruth Rendell’s The Water’s Lovely. Though it’s a crime novel, the only death so far occurred over a decade earlier, and whether or not it was a suspicious death remains to be seen. It’s very character driven, and obsessed with the very small details of people’s lives. While the older sister has concerns about her younger sister’s past actions and their possible implications for the present, it is in fact the older sister who is a wreck.

The eviction took place by the numbers on Big Brother last night. It should be interesting to see how April and Libra make out in sequester house. I’ve toyed with the notion of a crime story set in a game show sequester house, something that happens out of sight of the cameras. The HoH contest looked brutal, with the contestants hanging from ropes and being slammed into a wall, albeit a padded one. I can’t imagine Jerry surviving that very long. My bets are on Memphis, but all it takes is a moment of inattention to get knocked off.