Short Fiction

If it seems that I had stopped blogging for the last few weeks, it was because I had to. If you saw in my blogs back in June, I had problems with my laptop and had to take it in back then to be fixed. That took two weeks. Well, the problem occurred again and I have been without it for three weeks this time. At the time I am writing this blog, I still do not have it back—though it is due any day. As a back-up, I bought a netbook. So far, I like it. During this time I also have been experimenting with a new way for me to write—dictation. A new short story, whose title will change, was written this way. It needs work, but I will admit I enjoyed telling the story of Senator Leland Roma and his secret.
This short fiction story falls into the horror genre. The story opens with a United States Senator who returns home to find his home appears to be broken into. Inside he finds a beautiful woman waiting for him. Before the reader gets the wrong idea with this description, she is a lobbyist and has broken into his home to make him an offer he should not refuse. Some people say money talks, this lobbyist thinks blackmail speaks louder than money. She knows Leland has a secret and she believes that she has uncovered it—an affair with a younger woman on his staff. She further has arranged for the woman’s death and has framed Leland with evidence that he would have killed her—unless he agrees to do what the lobbyist wants.
We all have secrets. Some are not important except to us and others can be devastating. Other people—reporters, nosy neighbors, and others—will try to discover these secrets and expose them or use them for their personal gain. This lobbyist believes that she has uncovered Leland’s, and has made the secret into an illegal act that he should be afraid of. What she failed to discover was that his secret was not what she thought. A mistake she may not learn from.
Thank you for reading. Please visit www.davidalanlucas.com for updates on the articles, stories, and poems I write as well as readings I will be at and seminars I will give.