THE 31 CHARACTERS 31 DAYS CHALLENGE DAY TWENTY TWO

I think I’ve given up trying to convince X Of The Underground to let me tell her tale.  She’ll be speaking to you directly in The Lost Days soon, along with write-ups for The Grey Lady and Cairo Jones.  I am planning on starting to record the podcasts for the last week or so tonight.

This event is to create 31 characters, one for every day in May, that will be featured in an upcoming project I’m working on tentatively called Strikeforce Liberty.   It is to raise money for RAINN (The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).  If you donate here, you will have the option to sponsor a character or give me a name to create a character for.  In these times, where the Alt-Right is attacking a woman’s right to her own body, we need to support organizations like this.

If you are a Domicile of Dread Patreon, you’ll get a short podcast discussing the creation process for each character.  I made one of these podcasts available to the general public here.  If you’d like to hear all of these podcasts, get other exclusive goodies like reviews, essays, and the upcoming Cinematic Mirage (The Theater of Movies That Don't Exist) Project, and can spare at least a dollar a month to support my efforts to Make The World Stranger, go here to sign up.

Please enjoy, and please donate.

...as if you didn't know this character is a love letter to Pam Grier...

LADY DYNAMITE AND HER RACKETEERS

Name: Donna Price
Location: Detroit, MI
Occupation: Social Worker

In the mid-70‘s, Detroit was patrolled by the two-fisted team of Lady Nitro and her teen sidekick Dyna Mite.  The two women kept the city safe during a turbulent time.

The duo disappeared into the aether during the 80‘s.  The girl who was Dyna Mite went into civilian life, got a Doctorate in Social Work and devoted her time to making her hometown a better place.

Things improved a little...but new problems arose.  There was a rise in gang activities.  She heard reports of criminal organizations like Serpentine coming in from out of town recruiting wayward teens to become low-level thugs.  She went to the authorities to try to get help to protect these at-risk youth, but was turned away.

Donna Price knew she was too old to go back to her career as a vigilante full on...

...but there were other things she could do.

If kids felt they needed a gang to be protected, she’d provide one.  She’d provide training, structure, a headquarters....and her ‘Racketeers’ would take back the street, acting as a civilian police force and acting as inspiration to the city.  And every once and a while, if Lady Dynamite shows up in support, well.....