Bad Things in the Bayou

Author

by Anna Klein

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Background

Blanchard, Louisana. A tiny backwater town in the 'Bayou State' where the population of 1592 locals keep mostly to themselves and live behind shut curtains in falling down civil war era mansions and rusting trailers. With no tourist attractions besides miles and miles of fetid swampland, a few historical buildings, and it's own local monster legend that's as old as the town's foundations, the locals don't quite know what to make of the big city tourists that have wandered into Sharlene's Diner this sticky, sweltering Thursday morning. Folks are already uneasy on account of the missing people, the old timers are muttering the Blanchard bogeymonster in increasingly serious tones, and no one steps out of doors at night without their crosses and voodoo charms. Something's a-stirring in the tepid bayous of Blanchard, and legends say it's even older and hungrier than the 'gators.

A modern supernatural drama with elements of horror inspired by the atmospheric settings of True Blood and the early Anita Blake novels.

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Cast List

There are 17 characters:

• Audrey/Abraham Summers: The curator of the Blanchard Historical Society
• Bailie Lavergne: A waitress at Sharlene's Diner
• Brandine Baxter: The preacher's wife
• Brian Denton: Tag-along big-city slicker
• Britnney-Anne/Bobby-Joe Gibson: A waitress at Sharlene's Diner
• Earl Johnson: A slightly dimwitted dreamer and petty criminal
• Ford Lavergne: A thug and petty criminal
• 'Hunter': Old timer, famous for killing a giant gator
• Jed Lorne: The sympathetic bartender at Sharlene's Diner
• Laura Castille: Wide-eyed big-city slicker
• Old Ma Hattie: Blanchard's voodoo lady
• Patricia Mason: The new school teacher
• Reverend Billy Baxter: Blanchard's righteous preacher man
• Richard Fisher: Rich big-city slicker
• Sharlene Braddock: The formidabble proprietoress of Sharlene's Diner
• Sheriff Austin Amblin: Blanchard's young sheriff
• Wayne Powell: Visiting county official

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