I’m glad it worked for someone; I’ve rewritten that thing a dozen times over the last year or so.
Capturing the voice in text was difficult –more than my other stuff, this one works best as an audio performance– but it was even tougher dialing in the stupidity. Turns out, making a chatty character simultaneously dumb, menacing, and interesting can be a bit of a challenge.
Writing preternaturally calm and witty sociopaths is way, way easier. But easy is boring, so here we are.
UPDATE: I was just scrolling through my drafts and found the original, three paragraph version of the piece… from 2014. I can’t believe it took me three fucking years to work my way through that. Jesus.