The Invisible Skein

We have found ourselves running behind lately and have decided that it’s better to cut back to two pages a week for awhile. so beginning next week look for pages on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Thanks for your patience and support.

Here we are at week 2. New posts on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from here on out.

All Images By Amanda Hayes

I’ve been asked a lot about what the story is going to be about when it launches later this year. I’ve hinted here and there, and I’m not going to do more than hint (sorry), but I have decided that it wouldn’t hurt for you to get a brief bit of early script, and then, maybe some of Amanda’s terrific layout pages…

We open in small town Iowa, a dusty street, old fashioned stores, suspicious looking locals, and our heroine, Ali Leighter, walking the streets. To say she looks out of place is understatement at best. She’s dressed professionally, either a pant suit or a suit coat with matching skirt, her hair however is far from professional. In fact, it’s mostly blue, with pink streaks.

A close up of her face reveals a Bluetooth receiver in her ear. And, to the locals, she appears to be talking to herself.

ALI: You want to tell me what I’m doing in Iowa?

The voice from the other end is Robert, our other hero. The occasional inset panel will reveal him in front of a row of computers, each displaying something different, maps, lists of names, mathematical computations, etc. He’s wearing a full headset. The room appears to be mostly dark, think a cross between a government board room and the batcave.

ROBERT: Interviewing an alien abductee.

ALI: I thought that we already concluded that aliens weren’t real?

ROBERT: Well, I wouldn’t go that far. I do think we’ve pretty much conclusively
proven that little gray men aren’t flying into rural American towns and
inserting probes into the various bodily orifices of random loners with
delusions of grandeur.

ALI: Yeah, that’s what I said. So why am I here?

ROBERT: Because in a town that makes Mayberry look like Metropolis, with a
population of less than nine thousand people, over the last four years,
Salina, IA has had 37 reported alien abductions.