Butterflies Fly Away (or The Picture Post !)

New Layout

I made a decision, I love the new blogger. It is so customizable !  I may change my layout every month or so and have it inspired by something.  I already know what next month's theme is. This month's is inspired by a Miley Cyrus album cover I saw when Pandora gave me a Miley Cyrus song (I have no idea what Matt Nathanson and Party in the USA have in common) .  I just liked the font look so, I tried to copy it.

Who's ready for some pictures ?

 I figured since Mimic does take a time leap I should find some new photo inspirations and it amazed me how easily I found some of them.

Kristopher Grace (19)

That is a picture of a young Keanu Reeves. I am actually surprised how many half-Asian actors there are out there including Dean Cain, Tyson Beckford, Chad Michel Murray.

I am also surprised nobody was curious that in CTE, Sara's husband has been dead for 5 years and yet she has a 1 year old son. If someone had asked I'm sure I would have told who his father was.

As I drafted Veritas last February, I knew I wanted one section to have someone who was a child in the original be an adult in the sequels.

I imagine I may have thrown you all off because I realize Kris's name is only said 2 or 3 times in CTE and Hidden. His name was spelled Christopher but, every time I looked at it in Mimic I hated the way it looked. I don't know why I chose that name to begin with. I changed the spelling after seeing a Kris Allen song on the playlist.

Alan Gray (38) and Minnow Dory  (34)

Those pictures are of Josh Lucas and Rachel McAdams (I know she is 32), incidentally enough these two actually dated. Josh Lucas is probably best known as the basketball coach in Glory Road. I have no idea where that particular picture of him is from. McAdam's is from an Elle photoshoot it inspired the dress Minnow wears.


Bonus photo ! ( I love this photo of RM , I had to post it too. The look on her face and lighting really inspired that first scene with Minnie)













Hidden  follows the journey that  leads Alan to becoming a black market surgeon. It starts with him being disgusted by the idea of surgery with Cleoand then accepting it more and more with each patient or doctor he encounters until he gets to Minnow. I originally wanted Alan to change his name to Blackbird and take over for him but, I decided against it. There are a few hints in Hidden about his future.

" He put my leg through an x-ray machine. He didn’t speak much, like Blackbird.

I suppose that is a tactic of geniuses."

--Chapter 8

and then the epilogue.

"I became Channing’s apprentice

Now I work quietly"

Many of you picked up on a creepy vibe with Alan  and Minnow that's what I wanted.

They are both very broken people. Alan  has devoted  his entire adult life to  Minnow  and  nothing else because he feel responsible for what happened to her.

Minnow is very humbled because she got a second chance at life and it traumatized by what happened to her. They  both can't move on which is why they  keep everything.

By the way did anyone catch that the handkerchief Alan clots Julian's blood with is the one Haley wipes Alan's eyes with in Hidden ?

Sara Grace (46) , Twyla Grace (12) & Luce Grace (29)

Julianne Moore, Elle Fanning and Jesse Spencer (doesn't he look particularity evil in that picture ? )

The plan last spring was for the story to be about Luce but, I also really wanted to set it in the night between 2099 and 2100. I was nervous about making the characters so much older but, now I am pretty set about it.

The fact that Kris refers to Jean and Minnow as Aunt and Uncle is supposed to reflect Sara's relationship to them as opposed to Alan. Sara was friends with the Dorys a year before she went on the  run with her husband so at this point they have a 26 year friendship.

Jean Dory (42)

I love this picture of Johnny Depp because Jean has personal space issues and in this image JD  is so close to Keith Richards (the Rolling Stone who play's Jack Sparrow's dad). I think this is from Entertainment Weekly when PoTC 3 came out.

So, yes these characters are older but, still very much anti-heroes.

Part 2

This was originally going to only be two part short story and was drafted as such.  After posting the first section and battling all the story line ideas that came at me like bats, I decided to make this a little longer.

I will say this now, the story uses a retrospective narrative as the storytelling device.  I actually hate this when I read it in a book but, I like it here because in some aspects the retrospective stories are more important than the main plot line.

Part 2

Playlist (In the sidebar )

-1- Ghosts of Reach -- Halo Reach Theme

-2- Collide by Howie Day (thank you Lile for brining this song into my life, I love it !)

-3- A Day Without Rain by Enya