February 12, 2004
Titles would be nice...
Once again, I find myself all about Appalachia. I started a new short story this morning, which I plan to finish today as well. It's a pretty straightforward little horror story, almost EC Comics style. I have another idea I'm turning over as well, also set in Appalachia, and weirdly enough, also horror--although this one is more like Lost Weekend meets "Young Goodman Brown".
Both stories were inspired in part by stories I've heard about my family, although the first one also owes a lot to a dream I had this morning where Dolly Parton (!) was describing hillbillies to somebody. The second comes almost directly from a story I recently heard about my father and why he quit drinking. I think the second one's going to be a better story, which might be why I'm putting off writing it.
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Listening: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" -- Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
