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FORCES
Outline
By
Andrew Hawcroft
John Clay is the teenage leader of the inner-city youth
gang, The Red Liners. They inhabit the impoverished
Red Corners estate in South London, a law unto themselves, living for
ever-increasing kicks involving crime, intimidation and destruction.
One night, when John decides to raid the house of
the creator of an old science-fiction TV show, he sees it as nothing more than
another cheap thrill, another way to make some easy cash selling the artefacts on
display.
Laurence J. Carrington, a former professor of
English, wrote the Professor Morton’s Curious Gadget series of children’s sci-fi books
in the early 1960’s as, in his words, ‘a means of providing moral guidance to
children’. They were subsequently
adapted into a classic sci-fi TV series in the early 70’s, which ran until the
late-90’s. After his beloved wife
Matilda died from a rare incurable illness during the 70’s. he ordered their
large home turned into a museum dedicated to the show, with the profits going
to a charity supporting research into the same illness. This done, he promptly died himself, the blame
going upon heartbreak.
The house itself is a strange place, filled with
props from the TV show, including full-size mannequins of some of the most
famous and beloved creatures from the show; The Dust Merchants, a Corcator, The
Mirror of the Eleetium, a giant tooth from
the skyscraper-high Strider monster, and so on.
Breaking in, the Red Liners, hopped up on alcohol
and sugar, wreck the place, stealing anything they can fit in their pockets,
while John, the more controlled and intelligent of the gang, takes a precious
engraved pendant belong to Mr Carrington’s wife.
Shortly after though, things begin to happen. Members of the Red Liners start behaving
oddly, suffering from poor sleep, increased paranoia and militancy, and a sense
of being watched. Then they each begin to suffer a series of dire
‘misfortunes’. Some are found on the
brink of death, suffering with strange wounds. Others are discovered in terrible
states on terror, incapable of rational speech.
As winter descends heavily upon London, dark and
suggestive clues are found around the scenes of each incident, and despite the
ludicrousness of what is suggested by them, the evidence becomes impossible to
ignore.
As the members of his gang who assisted in the
break-in fall away, John becomes aware that he is being left until last by
whatever dreadful force is pursuing the Red Liners. He begins to understand that if he is to finally
find the strength of character to atone for his crimes, the time for doing so
is rapidly running out...
