Today's the fifth day and I feel reasonably well. Hopefully that'll mean a good piece of writing. Let's find out.
Wheel of Genres, turn, turn, turn! Tell me the genre I will discern!
Today's topic is... Fiction--Religious. Oh, boy. Now, while I am a practicing Catholic and my book Remnants of Chaos: Chaotic Omens is pumped full of religion meaning that much of its world building is based on Catholic doctrine, religious fiction always has the added of challenge of making it so that it doesn't sound contrived or like you're beating people over the head with a particular religion's beliefs. But, I think I may have a story idea in mind. This is actually an idea I have for a movie, but there's no reason why I can't explore it here. It's called The Pugilist Priest. Let's get started.
Thirty minutes on the clock: 30:00. And... go.
In the city of Detroit, Michigan near the parish of Ste. Anne de Detroit, you'd never expect to find a street known as "Vatican Town." It's much like Detroit's Mexican or Greek Towns, but instead of the focus being on the people's heritage, the focus on this street is on the people's religion which in this case is Roman Catholicism.
Now, you may have some preconceived notions about Catholics, but let me assure you that most of them are plain wrong or overblown. But whether you believe me or not is irrelevant; just take it from me that you don't want to take those preconceived notions into Vatican Town especially if you think Catholics are huge pushovers. The runners and shakers in Vatican Town are anything but. One such force is Vatican Town's gangs. Look out for the Crusaders and no one ever manages to expect the Spanish Inquisition, but the one to fear out of them all is the Chaldean gang. They drive around in their low-riders pimped out with the Lord's good name written on their doors and hoods. Gang members walk around with gold crucifixes and diamond rosaries hanging from their necks. They roll deep in their crews giving everyone else including the other gangs the stink eye, but despite their dispositions, gang violence is relatively rare but I wouldn't dare push their buttons; The Boondock Saints happens to be all their favorite movie.
After you've managed to dodge the Catholic gangs, you'll come to a bar called Holy Smokes. Inside you'll find a dank place poorly lit with the air clogged by smoke. You look to your left and you'll find the Little Sisters of Holy Persecution shooting pool. Be careful of those old nuns; they stand around all day smoking cigars, drinking beer, and rattling their giant rosaries as menacingly as possible. And there's always one or two brandishing a yard stick like a baseball bat. Word of the wise: they're not the ones who suffer persecution.
To the right you'll find the bar itself, but I wouldn't sit and drink there. Some of the students from Blessed Virtue High School sit at that bar to do their homework. But even if you don't sit down, you'll still have to suffer their judgmental gaze. Those kids are spirited, but their sticklers for proper dress code, so if you're a man, make sure your hair is combed, your face is shaven, your shirt tucked in, your shoes polished, and your pants are held up with a belt. If you're a woman, you must be especially careful because any woman with a skirt that stops higher than two inches above the knee will certainly be in danger when the PSB, Plaid Skirt Brigade, show up. They'll whip out a ruler and two young girls will restrain you while a third takes measure. If you pass, they'll let you go, but if you fail, they all whip out rulers and chase you from the bar. The boys on the other hand will turn the men over to Brother Fist, a muscular priest who is six feet by six feet and always ready to go fifteen rounds of bare-knuckle boxing to straighten out any sinner who wanders.
Once you get past the bar, you'll come to a little room with a small round table. Behind that table sits the man that they all call the Pugilist Priest. How did he get that name you ask? Well, the Reverend Father is an exorcist, but rather than reciting a few prayers over the afflicted, he does literal battle with the possessed. Armed in each of his gloves and in each of his shoes is a St. Benedict holy medal which wards off evil and demons. With every punch and kick, he exorcises the demons and delivers their just punishments.
Okay, and that's time! I actually finished this with ten minutes to go and went back and edited it. It's not as funny and as well written as I would like, but hey, it's thirty minutes worth of work. I'd like to see you do better! But, the scene I wrote here is more or less the scene in the movie where and how I want to introduce the Pugilist Priest. I want to give a strict but comical heir to all the thing. Hopefully it worked.
But anyway, that's it for today. If you want to use the wheel I made, you should be able to access it here. And if you have the time, please check out my books for sale on Amazon which you can find through my author page. The link is below. See you tomorrow.
Keep writing, my friends.
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