A couple of messages...

I've received several messages, mostly on Facebook, concerning this blog, and the pulp story it contains.  Those messages have made a huge decision for me.

Here are a few choice quotes from them...
"This isn't the kind of story I would normally read, but a friend posted it on his page. I decided to give it a try.  I'm hooked!  Please finish the story for me!"

"What is going to happen to Rose and the Black Mask?  I can't stand not knowing!"

"I think I'm falling in love with the Black Mask."

"You certainly know how to write a hook.  No ending, though? "

"POST THE REST OF THE STORY!!!"

"The last chapter creeped me out.  When did the good guy get so dark?  I like rooting for him."

Are you going to finish it?"

I sent off a couple of letters today to the publishers, explaining that I have 1236 people who have visited the blog, that I feel they want to know what happens to these characters, and that I have decided to finish the story as it began.  Online.  For free.  At least a chapter a week, until it's over.

For the record, I want to say thanks to all of the people who messaged me.  Thanks to all of the people who have read it, so far.  Thanks for being patient.  Let's finish this thing, shall we?

-Steven W. Bentley

A note to my readers...

A few months ago, I was approached by a couple of different ebook publishers who wished to discuss printing NIGHT-TIME IN THE CITY in an electronic format.  However, I was asked to not publish the ending of the work (as it was perceived that doing so would hurt potential sales).  I agreed to this, at the time.

Though I have had much success with views, almost no one has subscribed to the work, and so it has been a bit back and forth about how marketable it actually would be.  While we continue to debate this, I am unable to continue publishing the work at this time, and have been spending my time writing screenplays, and working on my video business.

This does not mean that the work will go unfinished, though.  I have made a decision that, if we cannot get more subscribers to prove it's marketability, I will self-publish it, in it's entirety at a later date.

I hope you understand, and realize how much I have appreciated the number of people from all over the world who have taken the time to read up until this point, and hope you all will appreciate the effort that I have put out as well, in an attempt to entertain you.
-Sincerely,
Steven W. Bentley

     In the heyday of Pulp Fiction (no, not the movie, you fool, sit down and let me continue!), there were master storytellers who wove amazing adventures every month to lure people into giving up their hard-earned dimes for a few hours of escape from the daily toll of the harsh world.  Lurid covers of exciting heroes and beautiful women in terrible distress littered the newsstands just as comic books were once displayed on squeaky spinning racks in grocery stores all over our nation.  Men, women, and children bought these adventures at the height of the Great Depression in order to find some relief, some excitement, in their lives.  And excitement they found!
     In just a few thousand words, whole epics of horror and amazement were told.  Tales of evil masterminds, frightening tortures, defenseless masses, and against them all...a mere handful willing to stand up, to protect, to keep at bay the ways of damnable men.
     The time has come, again, to be excited, entertained, amazed, and horrified.  For a handful to stand up to tyranny and horror.  For adventure to take our minds off of the daily toll.  Starting now...