Dear Submission Editor at Turner Page Turners.
To introduce myself my name is Barrie David. I’m retired and live with my wife Elly in the Vale of Glamorgan - South Wales. My literary passion is to write stories based on my own experiences and as a former medic in an Airborne Unit post such mileage as a detailed account of parachuting into the sea etc to military websites namely - UK Veterans Across the Globe - Parachute Medical Personnel - and the American 101st Airborne Division. Using the pseudonym Simon Titlark I’ve written three self-published eBooks available for review online. The titles are - (1) ‘Rather Unusual Parachute Descents’ (2) ‘In the time it takes to blink’ (3) ‘Mindset of Fear’.
Having registered with your website I would like to submit for your consideration three opening scenes of a fictional story inspired by a fleeting but terrifying near miss with a Scorpion while billeted in a tented camp in the UAE, and later by a helicopter flight into the spectacular Grand Canyon for a picnic where the pilot, soon after we landed, advised his six British passengers, ‘We could walk over to the nearby Colorado river but to keep an eye open for rattlesnakes’.
Adapted from the second eBook listed above and retitled ‘Luke Blake’s Screenplay’ it’s a two for the road horror story set in present-day Arizona. The dominant theme is how tranquil normality changes to sudden terror. The content has the unique feature of moving from the vast outdoor scenery of the Arizona interior to the oven heat of a tiny rear bedroom in an RV.
The storytelling format is inspired from John Steinbeck’s screenplay book ‘Of Mice and Men’ and Harold Brighouse’s ‘Hobsons Choice’.
