"Most vagabonds I knowed don't ever want to find the culprit That remains the object of their long relentless quest The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending The pursuit, you see, and never the arrest."
-Tom Waits. "A Foreign Affair." (song)
A man stops at a motel -The Macabre Motel- and experiences some weird things. He goes there because he's all alone, driving late at night to see his fiancé's family. Stopping at a motel that's just on his way to freshen up for the night sounds like a good idea.
I like the off-the-cuff nature of the writing. Frank Martin has a good ear for dialogue and characterization. The Macabre Motel would make a great stage play, the setting is dark and off putting, things don't fall neatly into place. Stuff issues forth like from Frank's dreamworld. Whether or not it makes for good drama doesn't matter. It just exists in the subconscious. That's where a writer sometimes takes some risks, not knowing if their dreamworld will connect with any readers. There comes a point where a writer just has to trust their gut.
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