Tag: snippet

Not included: a throwaway line about gator-spirits that makes me want to write an entire story around the concept. A deep country elf with a gator-spirit buddy, off fighting magical crimes. Kind of like Silver John, only I wouldn’t try to duplicate any of the accents.

Needed to throw a man and a horse off of a cliff. You know how it is.

Had to backtrack. What’s the point of an adventure story without adventures? Which is to say: “other people in deep sh*t, far away.”

I’m starting to think that they need at least one fight with this mudnado thing before they even got to the Old American ruin. Only problem is, I have yet to figure out how they distracted it long enough to get a bunch of wagons away safely. And themselves, of course. Can’t kill them off in the first fight, because then what’s the story?

There may be a number of jokes in this larger story.

I’ve since realized that ‘mudnado’ is so much better name than ‘mudstorm.’ Not that it comes up in this snippet. But it will, later.

Old American ruins. So handy for the plot. So usefully ominous.