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SEWER CREATURE: THE SCREENPLAY
Excerpt: Author’s Note
Sewer Creature is based on a true story. Wait, what? Okay, well not true as in true, but true in my imagination. How did it get into my imagination? That’s a good question. Thanks for asking. I’ll tell you.
Ever since I was a kid, growing up through adolescence, pimples, puberty, high school, college, and even as I write this now, I’ve always loved sci-fi and horror movies. And the one’s from the ‘50’s hold a special place in my heart, and seem to be deeply rooted in my brain. Yes, some are so campy that you cannot even sit through them — but the ideas are usually terrific and quite fun.
Now that was the first part of it being a true story.
The next true part is my Mum… She had a wonderful, dark, and yes, sometimes quite twisted sense of humor. And, like any good mother, she was always telling me dirty jokes, far-fetched tales, and stories of her life — some, she really shouldn’t have told me — way too much information. Anyway, I honestly never knew if what she was saying was true or not. But one of the stories that stuck in my mind was her telling me that when she was growing up, way out in the country, that occasionally she would lift the seat to the toilet and there’d be a snake in the bowl.
