It's always embarrassing when your creative psyche keeps serving up the same theme over and over. You think you're writing about war but the story turns out to be about the same topic you always write about. You start a new project and it starts out as about triumphing over weakness or dismantling oppressive regimes or some other idea - but nope, it's that same topic. How repetitive. How unimaginative.
For me, that theme - at least in recent years - has been the return of the dead. Not in a zombie way or a vampire way (usually) but always in some form. Resurrection, reanimation, specters, interdimensional, the stories go on and on. Is my subconscious grappling with a buried (heh) need to connect with people who are gone? Probably.
Which brings us to "Small Town Immortals" out in Lamplight this month! The immortals in the title take several forms; first as the legends and scand
als that endure in every small town (if you know, you know) and then as actual spirits able to return for brief visits courtesy of old-fashioned witchcraft.
The character in my story has been routed out of college and back to her rural hometown when she recovers from a car accident; she's kind of famous there as her father killed another man in a bar fight. She starts a secret relationship with the son of the man he killed, himself a former football star who is also an immortal in town. But when a rich old woman offers them both a way to visit their dead fathers, things get interesting.
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