Synopsis

Synopsis for "Pity Me No More, Forever

Pity Me No More, Forever

 

 

            Sabine Monroe is a headstrong, intelligent young woman, attending university in Connecticut, when news arrives of her Grandmother Claire’s passing. 

 

            Sabine had never been especially close to her parents.  From the time she was five she attended boarding school for girls, with only occasional visits from them.  Most weekends and holidays where spent with her grandmother, Claire Bonaventure, and her grandmother’s mysterious companion, John Hope.

 

            Grandmother Claire had been her whole world ever since the tragic death of her parents in an auto accident when she was only ten years old.  Being her only surviving relative, Sabine came to live with her in her mother’s family ancestral home �" Bonne Vita �" in Savanah, Georgia.  Her grandmother had put an immediate end to her attending boarding school, something Sabine had always detested as some unfortunate set of circumstances she’d had to unwillingly endure.

 

            A whole new world of magic and wonder opened to her in that house; stately and large and filled with an immense air of both the ancient and fantastic, Sabine learned more in the time she had begun to live there until she’d left for university in Connecticut at the tender age of 19.   She knew that elegant, lumbering house would always be her home, the place she would live out her days with her grandmother and John.

 

            Upon arriving back to her beloved home, Sabine learns she is the sole heir and executor of her grandmother’s estate.  At the reading of the will, Sabine learns that there is only one stipulation:  that her grandmother’s companion, John, be allowed to live at Bonne Vita for so long as he wishes. 

 

            Not that she minds, for although horribly scared on part of his face, John is one of the most beautiful and mysterious men she’s ever known.  Grandma Claire had never been terribly forthcoming about John’s past, himself being most silent on the matter as well, the only exceptions either of them making to say that he was of German descent, and that she had met him in Savannah many years ago while still married to her grandfather, Paul.

 

            Growing up around her grandmother and John, there was never any indication of any romantic attachment between the two; always there was only the understanding of a deep and abiding friendship. 

 

            Now, however, with Sabine’s return to her ancestral home under such unfortunate circumstances, the mystery of Claire and John’s relationship begins anew, for a letter written by her grandmother directs her to an old trunk in one of the attic rooms; a trunk holding thirteen volumes of family history, going all the way back into the time of her forbear, Johann Conrad Dippel �" the man for whom the character Victor von Frankenstein was based upon. 

 

            Each of the successive journals is the accounting of the female descendants of Dippel �" one for each of his female descendants; one of his wife, Margaretha; and one written by Johann himself.  What she finds in these journals tilts her view of reality, and leads to the inescapable

truth of John’s true identity �" that he is the living, historical ‘creature’ of Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’.

 

             

Author's Note

Please ignore grammatical issues. I mostly would like to see what you think of the story! Thank You!

Reviews

[Robert Parlange]

Interesting story. Looking forward to the chapters.

[AuthorDMGreene]

Thank You Robert! I actually won't be putting up full chapters; rather, I'll be putting up a 'teaser' for each chapter. It is my intention to publish my story when I'm done writing it!