Not to everyone's taste
I am taking a break from writing the stories for my agent, we have one published, and another coming soon, so I am going to do a little Gothic Horror, and Gothic Romance for a short while.
This story has an interesting back story, and a funny moment too.
While I was on the Bookrix site, a writers site based in Germany, one of the groups I was in had the most people in, but the fewest people allowed to show posts.
Someone challenged me to write a story about the group,
The title refers to the number of people who left the group, but didn't delete their profiles. The story is about a young lady who longs for an age that passed, much like the leaders of the group who "claimed" to have the largest group on the site, yet, few people used the group for various reasons - mainly favouritsm - despite having site rules, this group could flaunt them at will, and not be told off.
I challenged the leader of the group to get rid of any profile, that hadn't been used in the previous six months; knowing she would not do it, doing this would have cut the members by 50%.
The funny part is though I had been chatting to members of the group for months, using my name, one of the group asked if I was male, or female?
What made me laugh, was not the question, but the fact he couldn't tell that Lana Pawcel, is an anagram of my name Alan W Place.
I was using pennames as I was connected to a children's charity at the time, and I didn't want some of my work to tarnish the charity image.
Recently, I started another Gothic story called "The night is young," I haven't decided if this is a romance, or a horror story yet. I may well do two versions, who knows?
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