When I first came up with the idea of
the ghost story, it was all Dean’s fault.
He gave me the “what if” that led to the whole mess. Most of my stories start out as a “what if,”
and in this case it was: What if a man is murdered on his way home while just
trying to be a good Samaritan and it’s up to his ghost to help his lover track
down the bad guy?
At first I wasn’t going to do write it,
but Dean kept poking at me. He wanted
this question resolved. He wanted to
know that his partner would be okay when the dust settled and he couldn’t do
that until I wrote it. Dean was a nice
guy, but a persistent bugger.
So I started thinking about the man he
left behind. What kind of a man would
readily accept help from a ghost without question? What kind of circumstances could there be
where such a man would prefer that his loved one moved on instead of staying to
linger with him as a ghost?
