Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:19:17 +0000 (UTC)
From: Peter Brown <badboi666@btinternet.com>
Subject: Fourteen Again Epilogue

Fourteen again - Epilogue


In the days that have passed since I wrote Chapter 66, planned to be the
end of the story, I've been amazed to the extent that the characters have
become real to me.  I know that proper authors - the kind that write real
books and win Booker prizes - all say that their characters take over the
plot lines and do the developing for the author.  I though this was
pretentious crap, so I was startled when Ace and King effectively started
directing things when they finally appeared.  What was really alarming was
that I - who had invented these people - found myself weeping at my own sad
bits, reading them days after they were posted here.  The only way to deal
with this was to carry on writing.

That's how "Lion-King" got started.  I don't like the idea that things are
left in the air.  What happened to King?  I needed to know.  Lion-King was
the catharsis I - the "I" who is actually writing this stuff: the person
who isn't called "Peter Brown" but who logs onto badboi666 to post his
material on Nifty - needed to stop the tears.  And bugger me if the King in
Lion-King didn't start taking over the plot line.  Leo is there as a
necessary plot-advancer (he's called Leo as an homage to the other Leo
currently being written into my bedtime reading: Aardvark, you are
brilliant!, and because I couldn't resist the juxtaposition of Lion and
King.  Childish, yeah) as we work our way back.

As with Fourteen Again the last chapter of Lion-King was written fairly
soon after the saga re-started.  Writing that made me realize that the same
withdrawal problem would hit me - and perhaps, gentle reader, hit you as
well - at the end.  So a final (I promise) story is on the stocks.

One reader of Lion-King asked who Jack was.  I replied, recommending that
he should read Fourteen Again first.  He declined.  But you guys, who are
reading this because you enjoyed Fourteen Again and are pleased that
another chapter is here, will perhaps be encouraged to join me on the
continuing journey.  I know where, and how, it will end.  But the steps
getting me - us - there aren't clear yet.

Come and join me and King in Lion-King.  It'll be good to have you along
for the ride.

Badboi666 xxxxx