All Comments on 'The Book of Ruth: Doing Ruth Pt. 03'

My original plan for RUTH was three or four 3-LIT-page story episodes. This third episode has blown-out into three chapters of 11 LIT pages, with hopefully only one more episode to go. Well, maybe also a retrospective prequel told from the moms' POVs, but that's not mandatory, not yet. We'll see.

I've struggled over possible finales. The best I've devised is tragi-comic, terrible, absurdist, yet romantic. Oh, the suffering, the remorse, and the revenge! Oh, the incestuous reconciliations! That's right, there'll be hot kin-fucking, some expected, some not. And probably prison time.

If you care: This tale is based on real people extrapolated in "what-if's". Some, like Dave Moreland, are composites. Some are splits: Ruth, her mother and sister are aspects of a one woman. Locales, times, and artifacts are real, but I tweaked some a little -- the real Cousin Doug lives in Long Beach, not Venice West. Events are mostly fictional. Guess which aren't?

I enjoyed it. Still don't feel Ruth in terms of why narrator keeps it zipped up except for her. Excellent description of beauties and hazards of Mexico City. I don't understand why Jill would expose her brother to Russian payback. Maybe I must have missed something. Full marks . *****

It a idiot story