Come on, Jim! Bring him back with a new tale of horror...Halloween's not over for 12 more hours!

Chuck has to die so that I may live. Fitting a short story into a blog was way more work than I thought it would be. It would have been easier if I'd prepared better but I didn't get the idea until it was too late and I wanted it to be finished for Halloween.

But don't worry, Susie. Even if Chuck goes away, I'm sure BQ will stick around.

Mwah hah hah hah hah!

So are you going to reveal your subterfuge over there to the unknowing, or just let them twist in the wind? As you well know, there are some folks who will think that this is something real, regardless of the fact that the last post is by a dead woman. Either way, I kinda figured on the Tyler Durden/Fight Club/mulitple-personality angle. Nicely done. Actually gave me the chills when BQ and Chuck were talking back and forth - and I was in on the joke! However, I don't really get the one comment made by "September '99". Was that you, or somebody else trying to make up their own parts of the story?

Also, what's up with the intro to your original Lady of the Lake post on SBD? I kept waiting for Chuck to explain what was up with that 2-foot-tall fairy with the pirranha teeth, and it never came!

I'll let 'em in on it tomorrow. My evil nature prevents me from letting them off the hook tonight.

September 99 was somebody else. No idea what they were going for there but it added confusion so I left it.

The original fairy idea was good but it fell apart when I was redeveloping the story for blog format. Originally it was going to end with that fairy being the cause of all of Chuck's problems but insane Chuck worked a lot better for the format.

Yeah man. But I still want a story with the fairy with big, sharp, pointy teeth!

You pulled this off pretty damn well, I thought. It's hard to string people along for DAYS. All of the best known and biggest pranks (War of the Worlds, for example) are done as one-shot deals. You spool people up quickly, you get them almost believing you, and then you smack 'em over the forehead with just enough surreality to keep 'em guessing, while you run cackling into the night.

YOU went the other way: keep people guessing for two weeks and then throw so much strangeness at them that in one sitting it would be dismissed, but now that they have that much time invested in it, and have grown to "know" Chuck, they WANT to believe. That's a much harder type of story-telling and I think you worked it out pretty good.

BTW, if you want a decent scare in a really short space read this over at Quibbles N bits. Creepy, man....

http://www.quibbles-n-bits.com/archives/week_2003_10_26.html#001866

There's a Part Two to J's story at Quibbles that just went up as well. Off to read it now....

http://www.quibbles-n-bits.com/archives/week_2003_10_26.html#001875

I'll see what I can work up for a fairy tale. ;)

Thanks for the link!

Like i said in the comment to chuck, you are really good at that genre.....hope you write more.....

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