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Della’s resourceful; I like her quite a lot. And to me, the difficult family relationship played off against the violent, brutal melodrama was what made the story work. When I thought of the pirate fantasy along with the last line of the story, I knew I had a tale worth telling.
    This story has stubbornly hung in the public eye for quite a while now, thanks in no little part to Ed Gorman, that talented and enormously undervalued crime novelist whom I now venerate as the patron saint of editors. Ed’s used my story in god knows how many anthologies. And people have continued to confront it.
    That’s why it
was
turned into an hour-long episode of the Lifetime Cable anthology series
The Hidden Room
with Stephanie Zimbalist playing my protagonist. For years the story was under option to become a feature film—one year it was the French Canadian investors who ultimately finked out, another year it was the Persians. Hollywood writer Rospo Pallenberg, he of
Emerald Forest
and
Ex-calibur,
was a marvel of patience.
    This story was adapted to be a portfolio piece, the pilot episode for a cable hardboiled
noir
anthology series, but never was filmed, alas again. Somewhere along the line, I know there’s just the right actress who will take one look at this and say, cool, here’s the perfect tough, edgy, relationship- driven action vehicle. At least that’s one of my fantasies.
    In the meantime, I’m delighted Wormhole has chosen to present the story in a handsome new venue. And I still have the very devil of a time finding close-in parking spots at malls.
    Toughly, yet sensitively,
    Edward Bryant
    10 October 2001
    Denver, Colorado

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    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2011 by Ed Bryant
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