ATDTDA (17): Fickle Creek (462.21)

[Tim Strzechowski]

Re: ATDTDA (17): Fickle Creek (462.21)Great post, bekah!  And I hadn't even caught the pass-summit thing (I'm too much of a city boy to notice things like, well, mountains).

T


  Well,  I think the name "Fickle Creek" certainly suits the place.  First clue that this is not for reals (in some sense of the term) is that Frank hits the pass at the summit.  Now what kind of pass goes over the summit?  Or - conversely,  what kind of summit is it that needs a pass?   (Nochecitas music here  - twilight zone)  But it's just one more line to cross,  I guess,  another case of  borderline.


  And right near this little "Fickle Creek" town  is the Hotel Noctambulo  (night walker / sleepwalker)  which is full of insomniacs and motorcycle buffs (a club)  and "cowboy poets"  (again) and a few odd inventors working on projects.   Also in residence is a creepo named  Zoltan,  a Zorro-like vampire who steers clear of crosses and mirrors and who has "spells." 


  So down the stairs comes Stray who is apparently now some kind of married  - or at least  'it almost seems as though'  she is,   what with the "line of well-wishers" to bid her "adios."    Hubby/lover is a motorcycle buff whose name is Vang Feely which sounds  creepy like another  vampire.   I think this Nochecitas  (twilight zone)  area is one of dim light where things are not necessarily what they seem to be - .   Stray is certainly not what Frank was romantically imagining back in .


   "Fickle Creek" is a very appropriate and imo, sympathetic,  name for a little river of life (?) town.  (sorry - had to do it)


  Fickle:  erratic:  liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next."  

  (This is Stray and Zoltan for sure, maybe some others there.)


  Creek:  body of water that's smaller than a river but bigger than a brook.  It has a current.  It may dry up - especially in New Mexico. 




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