Fast Frank finds the need to explain: How did you come to write "Intercession/St. Trixie"?
A: After I read "Uh oh! Linger drags Jim to..." (85506) I started working on an episode with a legion of houris battling to rescue Jim and all the dammed adulterers, etc.
Q: Sounds great! Why didn't you do it?
A: I found that I had trapped myself. "No Valentine's Day" (85299) states, "Linger didn't have the power to actually change the past, but he could alter everyone's perception of the past." That seemed to disallow any retroactive changes to Heaven or Hell.
Q: What about St Trixie, herself?
A: From the time I wrote "Holy Hookers" (70015) I had a vague idea of having an angel dressed as a hooker show up either to scold Linger or to rescue Jim. Then, I thought about using Rahab the Canaanite harlot (ref. Book of Joshua) but I decided to come up with a contemporary character. Trixie was supposed to be a black crack-whore dying of an overdose when Linger does his thing. I couldn't make the death scene work right, so I scrapped it.
Q: St. Trixie's description is vague.
A: I got entirely too hung up on just what a street hooker might wear in a world with legal harlotry, but no marriage. I went with what I had and left the rest to the reader's imagination. The satin bows were inspired by Hedgehog's illustrated story, "Time For Some Fun", which is sadly no longer available.
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