Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Cell Phone Novel

In pursuit of the fact that one of my favorite sites is www.Textnovel.com, designed to highlight the new genre of the Japanese Cell phone Novel, I decided I need to try my hand at something new.  An artist must always grow and try new mediums of expression.

I have taken an idea that I have had rattling around for some two decades.  Those most of the cell phone novels I have read are truly YA.  Mine is more universal.  It is I confess more of the fan fiction fare, which is why I have not tackled it before.  There are few who do not know the story of The Phantom of the Opera, melodramatic in it original form-as French literature of the time tended to be.  And a bit of fan fiction itself only with an unhappy ending, if you pick up on the rather obvious Beauty and the Beast themes.

In my defense, when I first read the novel I was struck by all the unanswered questions that Gaston Leroux left us with.  Most notably, who was the mysterious lady he plied to Madame Giry to retrieve a footstool for, who left behind gloves and a fan.

As he gave us no answer but to assume it was a delusion of the phantom, I conceived my own idea of who she was and how she effected the events of the story.

Box Five - tells her story.

Please enjoy these first few chapters.  You may follow the story and sign up for updates on your cellphone at www.textnovel.com  Amazingly I have already posted more than two hundred chapters.  So you will have some catching up to do if this sparks your interest.


Chapter 1:- Mademoiselle
A black and terrible beauty lived inside him.

Those deaths were not his fault.

I was to blame.

He killed to find me,

to protect me.


Chapter 2:- Headlines
RETIREMENT GALA FOR MM DEBIENNE AND POLIGNY MARRED BY HANGING

Chapter 3:- Headlines
INQUEST RULES THE DEATH OF JOSEPH BUQUET WAS A SUICIDE

Chapter 4:- Mademoiselle
I was not sorry.

Joseph was no friend.

Erik has remembered after all these years and has avenged me.

I ought never to have prevented him in the first place.

Perhaps it this a message


Chapter 5:- Headlines
CAN THE OPERA'S NEW MANAGEMENT MANAGE THE MYSTERIOUS O.G. AS DIVA REFUSES TO PERFORM?


Chapter 6:- Mademoiselle
I laugh and wonder.

They ought to listen to him.

He just wants to make sure I am watching.

I am listening.

I always hear you.

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