Yuletide Reveal!
Jan. 1st, 2022 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragoness_eI can, at last, link the story I wrote for Yuletide.
Fandom: Kolchak: the Night Stalker (TV series, 1974-75)
Story: The Cemetery Dwellers
Tags: Gen, Canon-Typical Violence, Case Fic, 1970s, Chicago (City)
Carl Kolchak investigates a grisly murder at the construction site of a future condominium and mall complex.... that is being built on top of "Chicago's Most Haunted Cemetery". Protestors object to the historic cemetery being paved over for condos, the Chicago mob has money involved, and someone else objects to developers digging up the cemetery. For Kolchak, it may be less a matter of 'whodunnit?' as 'how do I survive this mess?' instead.
Thankfully, my gift recipient enjoyed it! I tried to hit most of the "please, wants" and avoided the "do not wants" as much as I could, but writing for someone else is always chancy. You never know for sure if someone is going to like it until they read it. As it turned out, this was a story I very much enjoyed writing--once I got started, it just flowed, with brief stops to Google various locations and organizations in Chicago. (Wikipedia has a surprising amount about the Chicago mob, including a year-by-year timeline).
Fandom: Kolchak: the Night Stalker (TV series, 1974-75)
Story: The Cemetery Dwellers
Tags: Gen, Canon-Typical Violence, Case Fic, 1970s, Chicago (City)
Carl Kolchak investigates a grisly murder at the construction site of a future condominium and mall complex.... that is being built on top of "Chicago's Most Haunted Cemetery". Protestors object to the historic cemetery being paved over for condos, the Chicago mob has money involved, and someone else objects to developers digging up the cemetery. For Kolchak, it may be less a matter of 'whodunnit?' as 'how do I survive this mess?' instead.
Thankfully, my gift recipient enjoyed it! I tried to hit most of the "please, wants" and avoided the "do not wants" as much as I could, but writing for someone else is always chancy. You never know for sure if someone is going to like it until they read it. As it turned out, this was a story I very much enjoyed writing--once I got started, it just flowed, with brief stops to Google various locations and organizations in Chicago. (Wikipedia has a surprising amount about the Chicago mob, including a year-by-year timeline).
