DInosaur Ghost Interview

INTERVIEWER: What inspired you to write Dinosaur Ghost?

VARICELLA: Liberal rage.

INTERVIEWER: I knew it!

VARICELLA: It's true. I wanted to take my frustration with republican party nonsense and transform it into something wicked and funny. I found the experience cathartic.

INTERVIEWER: Aren't you worried about alienating half your audience?

VARICELLA: No, I was operating under the assumption that republicans don't read.

INTERVIEWER: So you don't fear a conservative backlash?

VARICELLA: As Donald Trump says, all publicity is good publicity.

INTERVIEWER: But you don't actually want to see republicans eaten by dinosaurs, do you?

VARICELLA: Of course not. Some of my closest friends and family members are conservatives. Please remember, no republicans were harmed in the making of this book.

INTERVIEWER: I'll try to remember that.

VARICELLA: Good.

INTERVIEWER: Dinosaur Ghost marks the second time you've written a novella in which a person has sex with a dinosaur. (The other being the romance parody, The Oiliest Secret.) What's up with that?

VARICELLA: I'm pretty sure I invented dinosaur erotica.

INTERVIEWER: Neither story is very erotic.

VARICELLA: Oh, then never mind.

INTERVIEWER: So, why did you do it?

VARICELLA: I wrote both books at the same time--alternating chapters--and they ended up merging into one book with that scene as the climax. I eventually separated the two stories and made a few changes, but that aspect remained.

INTERVIEWER: Any plans to continue exploring that theme in the future?

VARICELLA: Nope. I think it's all out of my system.

INTERVIEWER: So what are you working on now?

VARICELLA: I always have several projects in the works. I'm about to publish three horror stories as an eBook under the title Split. I'm also working on a humorous novel about a southerner who is brought back from the dead by a deranged medical school dropout. It's called Frankenbubba. Another is a mainstream novel called Blood Cries.

INTERVIEWER: Thanks for talking with me.

VARICELLA: My pleasure

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Blood Cries: Chapter 3

About This Novel

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

1980

“Come along children.”  A woman in her early thirties led a boy and a girl, ages eight and twelve, up the three front steps of a small brick home.  She rang the bell.  A few seconds later, the door opened as far as a chain would allow.

“Ms. Harper?” The woman asked.  “Louella Harper?  Is it you?  Oh, I just can’t believe it.”

“Yes, what do you want?” asked the woman in the sliver of doorway.  She was about fifty years old with a face full of lines and gray streaks rapidly replacing the black in her hair.

“Oh, Ms. Harper.  My children just love your book.”

Louella eyed the picturesque family standing in front of her. The vacant eyes of the children declared their boredom.  Most likely, they’d been dragged here after church, while their father, no doubt, raced ahead to watch a football game on television.  The mother was a blonde former debutante who spoke in a voice made of unsweetened ice tea mixed with lemonade.  She cradled a copy of Louella’s novel under her arm.

“I don’t sign autographs,” Louella said.