Day 14...old habits die hard

Sigh. It had to happen. Over the years I've noticed a couple of motifs running through my stories. And anyone who has read my stuff knows that those two are: cemetaries and mobsters. Well, since I incorporated the construction crew into my novel, the inevitable has happened, and it turns out they are freelance mobsters, and one of them (the guy in the red hard hat) owns a tombstone manufacturing company.

But it helps the story out quite a bit. The construction crew uses a giant earth pounding machine to rip up the concrete roadway, and the vibration causes the bonsai to get very very sick. Actually, it dies. And my main character ends up giving it to the mobster in the red hat so he can bury it somewhere where nobody will ever find it. But our little bonsai has a few dazzling secrets to tell before giving up the ghost....

Things I've learned today...
-staying up late to read Stephen King makes for some baaaad dreams
-Stephen King stories are irresistible
-I gotta find a way to make a living from my mobster and cemetary stories