So as promised last week I wanted to talk a little about the three stories that are written or are planned as part of the Wisconsin Noir series. The idea of the series is not to create a trilogy or a continous tale. They are all independant of each other and characters will most likely not move from reality to the next. In truth i am not sure that this will be the actual case. As mentioned in the previous post the idea of putting them together came to me when I started thinking of White Russians. I had already written The Green Fields of France, set in Racine, Wisconsin in the 1920s, and was working on Face of Fear, set in the same city in the 1950s.
White Russians is still only a germ of a story, I have written a few lines, but am still working on the plot and characters. The idea so far is to set it in Racine in present time, but an alternative one. More on that in another post.
The Green Fields of France was originally supposed to be submitted to a short story collection, but I had a difficult time getting the plot together. Racine Public Library had a short story contest last year. The story was supposed to be set in Racine and somehow it all came together. It is a Lovecraftian horror story of a young man returning from the war in Europe, haunted by what he has seen there. Memories are not the only things that haunt him, there is something else. I was fairly happy with this one and partly based the main character on a former student of mine.
It is almost entirely set in the Wustum Museum, even though it was not active at the time of my story. Artistic license I guess.
Next week I will talk a bit about my current work in progress; Face of Fear.
-Chris
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