I finished the first draft of my new short story this morning. It’s only 2000 words, but I’m happy that it turned out pretty much the way I imagined it a couple of mornings ago. It still needs to be edited, of course, and then I’ll have to figure out if there’s anywhere to send it. I’m thinking about aiming really high this time. Get shot down by the best.
This has been a good week for reviews. First there was Kev Quigley’s glowing review of Twentieth Century King and now there’s Blu Gilliand’s review of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book (Revised & Updated), also at FEARNet. Blu captures the essence of the book perfectly. He even detected the fact that Brian Freeman and I cackled over some of the peskier questions!
Only three more episodes to go watching the third season of Treme. The World Horror Convention is in New Orleans this summer, so it feels like I’m doing research into the venue. I’ve been to NOLA three times before, but not since Katrina.
Could American Horror Story get any weirder? Probably, but they’d have to work at it. In fact, some things are falling together, although perhaps not as neatly as I suspect. I’m taking it as a given that the modern day Bloody Face is Lana’s son, but apparently some reviewers are open to the possibility that it could be one of Kit’s two (yes, two) alien children. The best scene this week was the one in which Kit distracted Dr. Thredson while Lana walked right past him on the way to freedom. For a while I wondered if the mother superior was tricking Lana into revealing the location of the Thredson recording. That scene on the staircase, though, was classic Hitchcock suspense. The intercutting between the modern Bloody Face scenario (sponsored by Got Milk?) and Lana’s showdown with Thredson was well done, too. When Kit and Grace returned to Kit’s home, it all seemed too idyllic. I knew something was going to happen, but I certainly didn’t expect that. It’s hard to imagine what the alien subplot means to the show. It seems like it belongs somewhere else. Only two more episodes to wrap it all up, though. I wonder if it will be as cheery a conclusion as the first season’s.
After umpteen years, Law & Order: SVU can still come up with an interesting premise. Despite all the trappings and folderol, the episode’s gimmick was the fact that two different people could be tried for the same crime in two different precincts at the same time. An interesting notion.
