What's in this folder? My goodness, it's full of WordPerfect macro programming information. (My approach to any given thing, like programming WordPerfect, is to dive in, do enormous amounts of research, become a near-expert, lose interest and forget all about it.)
And here are a bunch of WordPerfect documents, which happily LibreOffice can more or less read. (WordPerfect was technically superior to MS Word, which is why Word became dominant.)
• In 1999 I was contemplating a story in which Count Dracula and his daughters escape Van Helsing and sneak out of Transylvania by disintegrating themselves in the sun and having Renfield mail them to America in large manila envelopes. Instant Vampire, just add blood. (I assume that this technique was invented by the Hammer studio people; it raises the obvious question -- what happens when you lose some of the dust? Or mix the packets? I'm amazed that David Cronenberg has never thought of this. I was going to give Dracula the line "Being undead means never having to pay another insurance premium." but that rings hollow now.)
• There was once was a little boy named Vermit. His parents were Guelma and Vorpo, and they did not like him either. They lived in a dark and gloomy castle called Kathundra and fed on dust motes and spiderwebs, until one day Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton knocked on their door and took them all away to Hollywood where they lived happily ever after.
• Here's a story I was going to submit to The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction until I chickened out. Did I err?
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