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Well I originally wrote The Twisting Door as a screenplay but I've converted it to a novella and an audiobook in a style I call spoken screenplay. Thanks for the interest!

It's an unprovable hypothesis in anthropology that our historical ideas about dwarves and elves and witches have a basis in our disabled ancestors. Those who have Williams Beuren have the classic fey characteristics of elves, those with Down's Syndrome could be dwarves and goblins, and the paranoid and delusional and schizophrenic could be witches or those possessed by spirits.

In my story I take it one step farther. In the 10th century walled city of Cennomanis (current day Le Mans, France) citizens could be cast out to die of exposure for a variety of reasons. I imagine a hidden society of outcasts who have learned to live beyond the walls.

The theme I explore that I think rings strongly of truth is that these outcasts were worthless devils in the eyes of the city dwellers and nothing more. But the outcasts themselves constructed an entire mythos of who they were and how they were different and what made them special. It is my contention that all that we know of elves and fairies, dwarves and goblins, and magic of all kinds originate with our outcast disabled communities granting power to themselves.

It's meant to be produced in a Herzog-style summer in a French forest with a cast of disabled actors and a lot of green screens. A production team in Germany are looking at it now but I'm still spreading the word.