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Written : 18th - 30th January 2003
This was almost an individual effort, although I did receive a little help from the 1976 movie 'Carrie', the film version of Stephen King's first novel. Carrie White, played in the movie by Sissy Spacek, is mocked and scorned by everyone in her school and town, and goes berserk when kids drench her with pigs' blood (shown in this grisly still), destroying her home town of Chamberlain, Maine, using her telekinetic powers. This pose inspired me to write 'Persistence of Vision', and is referred to in one scene. Blossom is having another dream, the one where she watches Townsville burn from atop a skyscraper. She sees her reflection in a window, and she looks pretty much like Carrie in this picture. After she wakes up, she sees the same horrific image in the bathroom mirror.
'The Shining' also contributed to the story, and will continue to do so in others. After the aforementioned traumatic ordeal, Blossom sees a hand lying limply over the edge of the tub, and sees the Professor lying dead in it, floating in his own blood. In "The Shining", the ghost of an old woman who died at the Overlook Hotel lies in the bathtub of Room 217, and it attacks Danny Torrance. Thus was that scene inspired.