Starting another of my three-part "novels." They're really trisected not because of great length but so I don't get confused and tangle up all the plot details. The next two segments will feature Baron Shogren and Cogitus, so there should be mass hysteria, manslaughter and everyone running around in panicky circles.
There's a strange kind of wistful feeling setting a story back in 2010. It's like leafing through a college yearbook. Today, Megan Salenger has been dead for a few years and Ashley has gone through s divorce that humbled her considerably. But in this story, they are still young and supremely confident they can save the world. It's a silly illusion, of course. In a few minutes, I could rewrite the canon so that Megan is fine and Ashley blissfully married but tampering with "History" like that never feels genuine.
And of course, this whole Midnight War saga is a way for me to relive and digest all the pulp novels, radio and TV shows and movies, Golden and Silver Age comics etc that imprinted on me from age 11 to 16. It's been immense fun. Merrick Shale here is a tribute/homage/spoof of one of my favorite movie spies of the 1960s.
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Date: 2025-02-03 10:54 am (UTC)There's a strange kind of wistful feeling setting a story back in 2010. It's like leafing through a college yearbook. Today, Megan Salenger has been dead for a few years and Ashley has gone through s divorce that humbled her considerably. But in this story, they are still young and supremely confident they can save the world. It's a silly illusion, of course. In a few minutes, I could rewrite the canon so that Megan is fine and Ashley blissfully married but tampering with "History" like that never feels genuine.
And of course, this whole Midnight War saga is a way for me to relive and digest all the pulp novels, radio and TV shows and movies, Golden and Silver Age comics etc that imprinted on me from age 11 to 16. It's been immense fun. Merrick Shale here is a tribute/homage/spoof of one of my favorite movie spies of the 1960s.