Writing this story outline, I imagined it in movie form. The first scene would open with Barrie and Katlen complaining about the earliness of the scheduled book launch they were expected to attend. Later on, they would learn that there was no book launch at all. The mysteries of the building-like house would be unknown to them or the readers, but the readers would be drawing their own clues as they follow the two women around the house.
The story would continue with suspenseful scenes that lead to the near-end scene about the housemaster, Fabian, locking the two spying women inside a hidden room inside a room. This big scene is where everything comes together, as it reveals most of the mysteries of previous scenes. For example, a previous scene would concentrate on the peculiarity of the salon-like room Fabian leads the two women to, when at the start all they knew was that they going to attend a book launch at 5:30 in the morning. A book launch at 5:30 in the morning is odd enough, but I intended to add more peculiarities as the story progresses to add to the suspense in the last scene. The last scene would center on bioterrorism. Evidence would be enough for a reader to draw the idea that a mass murder was about to take place. The question of whether the two locked women would escape or remain inside (to be killed afterwards) will not be answered in the story, but that in itself could be a problem.
The Specimen form might be appropriate for this story, but using this I might have to focus on the character of Fabian instead of the two women. Telling the story from Fabian's point of view would greatly alter the plot of the story. Hence, the Gathering form might be a better structure to use. Telling the story might be more effective by putting all important characters together and by telling the story from the point of view of either of the two women (preferably Barrie).
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