Unfortunate Missing Letters

(cross-posted from classicfilm with additional examples)

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Famous films, and how they might have been. (Originally written as a New Statesman competition entry and discovered in the bottom of a box...)

The Titfield Thunderbo[l]t: British Rail want to close the branch line -- but little do they know the old engine in the local museum is a self-transforming alien in disguise...

A Mat[t]er of Life and Death: Binns Minor has to climb an everlasting staircase in the afterlife in search of his mother.( Read more... )

Problems with Thomas

Having written one one-shot for "Crimson Peak" in an evening, I then felt that in order to be fair I ought to do a Thomas-PoV piece to counterbalance Alan's view of Thomas (especially as I actually found Thomas by far the more compelling character!)

It actually turned out a great deal more difficult than I was expecting; basically, when you get down to it, Thomas Sharpe kills people. Or at least, he seduces them for their money and then stands aside while his sister gets rid of them for him. So it's pretty awkward to try to write a story from his point of view without its coming across as a whitewash.( Read more... )

Crimson Peak reference

Some useful excerpts:
http://www.scifimoviezone.com/crimsonpeak01.shtml