Preston and the Starving Shadows

[Preston_Penn77]

What do you think this tale would be about, were it to exist in its entirety?

I ask because I'm toying with the idea of writing this bizarre children's tale under a pseudonym.

[G. S. Carnivals]

The action takes place in a kindergarten schoolroom. The starving shadows are the children. Preston intervenes. Kinda.

[Murony_Pyre]

He's a custodian/caretaker sort but the school has long since been abandoned. The starving shadows are the shadows of children whose parents were to busy on their iPhone's to notice that they had faded away.

[Preston_Penn77]

So you both like a school setting.

But what about the part where the shadows eat the whole backyard, including Preston's mom's favorite flowers?

I think the story would need to incorporate this one snatch of info from "Alice's Last Adventure."

[Murony_Pyre]

Simple

"They follow him home from school one day which was against the rules"

And all hell breaks loose.

[ramonoski]

For some reason I imagine the book would begin with the words «The day the shadows came to stay, Preston Penn...»

[Preston_Penn77]

Quote Originally Posted by Murony_Pyre

Simple "They follow him home from school one day which was against the rules" And all hell breaks loose.

That's good; I like that.

[Preston_Penn77]

Quote Originally Posted by ramonoski

For some reason I imagine the book would begin with the words «The day the shadows came to stay, Preston Penn...»

Also good. Maybe the three of us should collaborate on it, find an illustrator.

[Murony_Pyre]

I want to say that I also really like all the ideas so far.

I could possibly take a crack at illustrating it but I would need a description of each scene to be illustrated like in the old style illos.
For example: "He entered the drawing room. Spencer was already there --lying in wait!"
I feel India ink on thick paper would be just the thing for this.

Actually it is most certainly a job for the late Edward Gorey. Let's have a seance!

[ramonoski]

Let me get my ouija board. It's broken and missing some characters, but I suppose it might still do the trick... Incidentally, I'm no writer but I grant permission to use my sentence in any hypothetical P. P. story.