Where the Sun Don't Shine: Chapter Four

I awoke and went for a rather long stroll. I appreciated the scenery of the night sky, it seemed to be one of the few times a year that you could actually see the stars instead of just a hazy smog. That's the one thing i miss about the time before this one. They sky was always beautiful, and so were the women. Of course, that was a time when i cared not about the purity of blood and just went after anything, much like an animal. Now, I consider myself more refined, a sort of aficionado of sorts. I bumped into a homeless man and apologized briefly. His blood would not be worth spilling, for it was filthy. But wait, no, there was something different about this man. He didn't have the scent of a normal man. He smelled......like a fellow creature of the night but....not. He smelled like some sort of half-breed or some other type of creature. I decided to follow him.

I followed him to a condemned mental institution. There he took off his filthy wardrobe and what i saw before me was monstrous. He stood with his right leg shorter than the left, and his left arm became a sort of monstrous claw while his right arm remained human. His face was that of a normal human face except for one disguishable characteristic. His mouth.....was nonexistent. Well, not nonexistent, but rather he had no lips, just a round hole with teeth covering the entire circumference. Out of the shadows a woman appeared who appeared to be human.
"Please, I beg of you...." she weeped.
"Enough."
"But..."
"If you bring me a man of a high stature then i will spare the life of you and your family."
"High stature? I'm afraid I don't understand..."
"Bring me, a rich man." She started to walk away.
"I don't think I need to tell you what will happen if you don't bring him....tonight" the man said. The woman hurried away. I'd never seen anything like this man before. And what was going on with this woman? I slipped deeper into the shadows to conceal myself. Before long, the woman came back with a very average looking man.
"Come on, it's nice and empty in here, see?"
"I don't know about this. I'd rather just get a hotel room."
"Don't you have any sense of fun? Doesn't this place give you a sense of exhilaration?"
"Well yes but.....Oh my god, what the fuck is that thing?!" the average man had seen the disfigured man standing there. Before the average man could say anything more the disfigured man pounced upon him and placed his mouth on the top of the average man's head and appeared to be drinking. If there's one thing I can spot it's how a monster drinks. After all, I do it myself. The disfigured man drank and drank and slowly his disfigured parts started to become normal again and before long what stood before me was the average man. He turned to the woman.
"Now, leave. Before I change my mind" he said as she ran away. I decided now would be a good time to reveal myself in his presense.
"What exactly are you?" I said to the man.
"A monster, just think of me as a monstrous leech." He said, not at all surprised to see me.
"And you take on the forms of your victims?"
"How else should I find more people to feed upon? I mean, first it started with this here institution. Everyone in here was a tasty morsel but of course, I suffered a slight damper upon my sanity from all the meals. But I will have this whole city to feast upon one day."
"Is that....disfigured body your real form?"
"Well, it is when I haven't fed in a while. You can see from this institution that is my home that it's been quite a long while. It's very hard to feast upon people in public when you are what I am."
"And the woman? Why didn't you feast upon her?"
"Honestly, I hate taking on the form of a woman. I'd rather just threaten to take her family away from her while she watches. Then, she pleads me not to. After that I make a deal and tell her to bring me someone worthy of being eaten. Then i let her go. For the rest of her life she lives with the guilt of killing an innocent man to save her family's life, while her family goes on living carefree."
"You've done this before?"
"Well, it's what i used to do before I had happened upon this institution."
"I'm going to have to kill you."
"I know."
"It's not because of what you do, I agree with it. But, it's because of the fact that this town is a meal reserved for me. And I might never know when you might attempt to feed upon one of the 6 humans under my protection."
"Well then, we should probably stop talking and commence our battle then. Shall we?" He said as he pulled a stake from behind his back.
"By the way" he said, "what's your name?"
"Vito" I said, and i lunged.


to be continued.....

The Winners guide to winning. [Preview]

Hi, i'm a winner. And you can be too. It takes a lot to be a winner, but do what i say and it'll happen. First off, I just want you to take 20 minutes a day to just spend to yourself. I'm not talking about watching a movie or anything, i want you to sit and think. Maybe, go outside and stare at the sky and just think about everything. Think about your life and what can make it better. My name is John Smith as far you know and i'm the most average, generic person on the planet. But i'm a winner. Now unless you actually follow my instructions, your life is going to be the same shithole it's always been. I want you to really consider what i'm saying and actually put it to good use. Reading isn't everything, actions speak louder than words. I've met a lot of assholes in my life. But i'll get to that later. For now, just think.

Star Force Gemini 2 [Interview with 김재민]

I'm sitting, again, at another shop in that same downtown of that same dying city. This time I'm eating frozen yogurt, and it's delicious. Just as I sit down, I see him; I recognize him right off the back. Kim is the only one of the actors in Star Force Gemini with any sort of real acting history. I wave him down, like a fan boy. He smiles and sits down at my small table.
"Hello." He says.
"Hi. How are you today?"
"I'm okay. So shall we begin?" He prompts.
"Sure sure! Were you going to get yogurt?" I ask, off the record.
"Yeah, in a little bit." He says.
"Alright." I say and set my Mp3 recorder on the table. "So how was it coming back for another season of Star Force Gemini?"
"It was fun, we got to travel this time. And even though we didn't get to go to SK, I still enjoyed it."
"Was it hard working in Greece?" I ask.
"A little bit. Most of us felt really out of place there, but we had translators so it wasn't so bad." He says with a smile.
"Is it true that your character, 김재민, does the most fighting in this season?" I ask.
"Yeah, it's true. The creator told me that he felt my character was under used in the last season. He actually even went as far as to say we were all under used, but as far as action goes, he felt 김재민 didn't shine, so he really challenged me with this new one."
"Right, so there's an evolution to all the characters?" I ask.
"Yeah, well for one thing; Ω isn't as unstable in this season as he was in the last one, he's more of a real person, not a caricature. C41212105 is more useful, overall, in this season..." I cut him off to ask.
"Does that mean he becomes an assassin?"
"I'm not at liberty to say." He pauses. "But back to what I was saying, **SuPeRfUcKiNgStAr** becomes a lead character in this season, like she did towards the end of the last season. And um, well, [Jestro] is a completely different character. I was really blown away by the complexities that each of these characters have in this new season."
"Right, so I hear there are a few love sub-plots in this season, is that true?" I ask.
"Yeah, for the most part. 김재민 however, doesn't get one until season 3."
"There's a season three!?" I ask, excited.
"Well, um..." He pauses. "Yeah, we're all signed into a three season contract, and plus a spin-off season."
"So Star Force Gemini: The C41212105 Chronicles was a series idea?"
"Yeah, Ryan thought it would be really funny. Also, he said it'd piss off the real Ω, which he loves to do, and that it would help tie into Guild for Hired Guns, a series that the real live C41212105 is writing."
"Right, so can you tell us anything more about season three?" I ask.
"Um, no I can't because, well, we haven't started working on it yet. The only thing I do know, is that everyone dies." He grins.
"Everyone dies!?" I ask horrified.
"Hahahahaha, you'll just have to wait and see!" Then he stands up and gets some yogurt, by this time I've noticed mine has started melting so I begin to eat it.
-Steve Espino





-Sir Jestro

Star Force Gemini 2 [Interview with Ω]

As I sit, waiting, at a small coffee table in the downtown of Los Angeles. I've just ordered a passion fruit tea and keep looking out the window, my date is fifteen minutes late. I tell myself,
"If this fat Greek motherfucker isn't here in the next ten minutes, I'm leaving." I tell myself I'll just do a piece on cats or something.
But luckily, he shows up before I leave. He's a small time actor--the kind who only does TV and has just a few independent, straight to video films under his belt. I wave him down and he sits down at my table.
"You're late." I tell him.
"I was running on Ω time." He tells me. I roll my eyes, method actors.
"Let's begin this interview, shall we?" I ask setting my Mp3 recorder on the table.
"Okay." He tells me as he waves down on of the Starfucks employees.
"Yes, sir?" She asks him as she walks up to our table.
"Yeah, gimmie a peppermint hot chocolate. Thanks." Then he turns to me. "Ask me a question." Both myself and the girl employee are taken aback by this. Did he really just treat her like some kind of waitress? She has a horrified look on her face, but when he doesn't turn around she just walks back behind the counter like a zombie and makes his order. Honestly, I'm so impressed by his arrogant display of superiority that I forgive his not being punctual.
"Okay, first of all." I begin. "How was it, coming back for another season of Star Force Gemini?" I ask him.
"Well, not gonna lie," He says, taking off his ray-bans. "I didn't like it as much as I thought I would."
"And why is that?" I ask.
"Well, you see, SFG 2 takes place almost entirely in Greece, but the only problem is, it was all filmed in Athens which, don't get me wrong it's a great and beautiful city, it's just," He pauses looking back at the girl making his hot chocolate. "I really felt it should have been filmed in a more rural area, you know?"
"Right, so excluding location, how was it making Star Force Gemini Season 2?" I ask him.
"Oh, it was fucking amazing. The creator really pushed all of us to the next level on this one. If you thought the first one was insanely epic, you haven't seen anything yet."
"Right. How was it working with the same cast, I hear there has been no change in the line-up."
"Nah, the SFG crew are pretty much the same, even though [Jestro] isn't as big of a character as he was in the last one." He tells me.
"Yes, I did hear rumors he was playing the villain in this one."
"Well, he's not really the villain. I'm sorry, I can't really say too much on that subject, we have it in our contracts not to spoil any of the twists."
"So it's a twist?"
"Kind of, even though you figure it out towards the beginning." He tells me, the girl brings his hot chocolate, a world record if you ask me.
"I also hear that the creator is doing some type of viral marketing tool for season 2?"
"Yeah, a little bit. He's using two different channels for publicity, your channel being one of them."
"Right. In Star Force Gemini Season 2 you use the same weapon as before, your beam katana, is it true however, that other things have changed?"
"Yeah, I end up losing my RX7 and getting a Smart Car. It's all tricked out, it's actually really cool. I had to take all kinds of driving classes for this season."
"What other kinds of training did you have to do for this season?" I ask.
"Well, we all had to learn fighting again, and the creator wanted us to do our own stunts, he claims stunt doubles are for Steven Sagal movies."
"Everyone did all of their own stunts?" I ask.
"Yeah, the only real fake thing, was when the Eiffel Tower gets destroyed..."
My eyes widened at this, at he caught my look.
"I've said too much. This interview is over." Then he stormed out.
I was upset, at first, having only a handful of answers for my Star Force Gemini Season 2 interview from one of it's lead characters, Ω but when I realized that I still had four more people to interview, the feeling didn't feel so bad.
-Steve Espino






-Sir Jestro