House of Bourbon was the first of my experimental pieces. The following chronological piece – which is still in review for a contest – Three Pills, took what I was testing in this piece to the next level. All of the work in House of Bourbon and Three Pills became vital to me during Tesla’s Travels, where I utilized what I had learned through these pieces to drive home a fundamental sub plot of the manuscript. I don’t want to give much away, so here is the link: House of Bourbon. If you are interested in more details about the piece, continue reading, but you need to understand that the following is full of explanation.
In House of Bourbon, you will be experiencing multiple time periods, with multiple people speaking. That was the first goal of the piece was to grab hold of a historical time and then span it by decades and family members – see if you can tell which country, periods, and events are transpiring. The other goal was to stay strictly to describing the world around these people using only their dialogue. I wanted to remove the narrator and see if I could create a world through dialogue only. Did I do it? Not sure, I already know the world that they are in so it becomes impossible for me to look at it with a blank slate. As always, comments can be sent directly to me through the Contact Me page.