And yet another new story posted today. ‘Final Girls‘ has been in my mind for a while now. It started when I watched a documentary about the making of the Friday the 13th films a few months back. During it, one of the women who had played a final girl in one of the early films said she thought she, and all her fellow final girls from the series, should all come back to finish off Jason in the end. The image of half a dozen dumpy failed actresses queuing up to stab Jason Voorhees in the manner of the passengers waiting to slap the hysterical passenger in Airplane seemed ridiculous, but at the same time the notion of a league of final girls appealed to me, and gradually evolved over the following weeks.
At first the idea was for them to be hunting slashers across America, but that seemed just a bit too straightforward. What was going on behind the scenes? What happened after the end credits rolled after all those Halloween and Friday the 13th sequels? The answer more or less presented itself.
There are some elements in the story which may feel like they’ve been left hanging or unresolved (the whole Amy Freidrich thing, for example). It may feel a bit like the first episode of an ongoing series. That’s because it is. Final Girls should really be read as if it’s the first episode of an ongoing series, mainly because that’s exactly what it is. I can see myself coming back to the girls and their attendant slashers. It’s a lighter story than the last few I’ve written (albeit one that starts with a massacre) and it’s been a lot of fun to work on. Might be a motto worth remembering: WRITING = NOT ALWAYS HARD WORK.
Anyway, that’s enough waffle for now. Final Girls can be read here.
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