Oddbody and Marco’s Story
I’m going to start working on a live comedy/variety show in the very near future that I will inevitably have to bring here. It will be called Dr. Oddbody’s Phantasmagorium and be crazy stew of music, theatre and comedy all with a horror theme.
On the subway I got inspired. Here’s a tiny snippet of Marco’s story from my project The Whisperer and the Wanderer…
“When Marco was little he was an orphan, at least that what they thought. In truth his parents left him at the door of the abbey late one night and he has lived there ever since. He lived, like other children, in and among the stables and kitchen and worked and learned from a very early age.
When he was old enough to join the Brotherhood one of the trainers, Theos (he was Brother Theos then, not yet a High Crusader and yet to earn the title “Sir”) he refused Marco’s admission. Time and again boys and girls would submit to the trials and get taken, but never Marco. The sickly boy Jurn, the slow boy with the one bad eye Kevin, Brenna, the wee girl who was teased by the older children because of her red, red hair and freckles, they were all taken before Marco.
Marco was nearly too old to submit for the trials, and as soon as Theos saw him he put a dismissive hand up and waved him away. The boy was filled with fury, tears welling, heart pounding.
Outside the Abbey walls, Marco and Theos encounter each other. Marco asks him directly “Why don’t you take me?” Theos simply chuckles, cruelly, and turns away. Marco explodes, running at Theos and tackling him. He clawed and roared at Theos. With one careful blow he knocks Marco onto his back.
Marco awakens in his bunk, with a rough wooden practice sword and a small rusted buckler wrapped in an acolyte’s tunic.”
