The Kick the Bucket Tour
By Jo Perry, first published in Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of Noircon
When an LA tour of gruesome celebrity murder sites takes a violent twist, reality becomes legend.
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A young African American Hollywood hopeful makes her living by giving "Kick The Bucket Tours". This involves driving around mansions in LA and describing in sensational detail the suicides and murders of celebrities that occurred there. The superficial tourists and their fetish with tragedies disgust and bore her, but she's behind on her rent and can't stand to go home to the Midwest a failure.
At the end of the tour, a man in a Spiderman costume asks for a selfie. The tour guide refuses, and he begins to violently stab her. The tourists watch in awe and applaud the "performance."
Years later, another Hollywood hopeful gives the same tour. When his van reaches the spot where the previous tour guide was stabbed to death, he describes it to his audience and is pleased when they gasp in horror and fascination.
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