When War Came to Town by Amy Laurens

Author:Amy Laurens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: stories with child protagonists main characters, pseudo historical fantasy with superheroes, superhero short stories, good vs evil magic, peace vs war in balanced magic
Publisher: Inkprint Press
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Making Of When War Came To Town

Some point, back in early 2010, I was really enthused about super heroes (like, more than usual, since I’m pretty fond of them at any given moment) and wanted to write some stories about them. It’s probable that I’d been watching Will Smith’s Hancock with my husband, actually. And somehow I conceived of this idea of having set of Powers, who were in perpetual chaos, fighting to keep the balance of the world.

Actually, I’m like 95% sure this was after watching Hancock, because if my memory serves me correctly there’s a fight scene in the sky in that movie, and that was the fodder for a line not in When War Came To Town, but in The Powers That Be, Inklet #27, about the Powers battling in the clouds.

So. Superheros, known as Powers, fighting to keep the balance.

Forget, Inklet #39, actually came first, a lil flash-fic piece that I sold to Allegory Magazine in September of 2010. And given Forget is about Memory, one of the Powers, I decided it would be really cool to write, like, a cycle of short stories that all rallied together to tell an over-arching story about the Powers, but which also contradicted each other somewhat, and sometimes seemed to play on different timelines, or with—as it were—slightly different memories of how events actually happened.

The full cycle of stories never eventuated, though I still think it would be a cool commentary on the nature of memory and the way history is recorded, but this one, When War Came To Town, would have been one of the first in the sequence, detailing a small event in the history of War, one of our main characters.

I like to think this event changed her a little; that she was just as shocked as everyone else to realise that the newest incarnation of Peace was just a child—and that, even though she was only a child, she still had what it took to stand up to a War who had decades, if not centuries more experience than her.

Maybe, this is the incident that humanises War again, allows her to remember that she too was once a human being—a realisation, or remembrance, that paves the way for the events of The Powers That Be a few decades into the future.

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