PATRICK : The Story Of An Irish Madman

Guess you can blame Stephen King, for "Patrick's" birth. Because "Lawnmower Man", and a short story I'm reading by the same author at present, called, "Lunch at Gotham Cafe", inspired this. Something about his character, the crazy waiter, in that story, just stayed with me, and I kept asking myself: What could make someone grow up psychotic? And Patrick, and this story, seemed to fit the bill.

MAYBE IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE FUN OF MADNESS! Someone once told me: it’s very easy to knock off balance, that so finely tuned mechanism, we perceive, and see as sanity. Guess that’s why people out there, who one moment are seen as quite rational in their behavior, or in the next, carving up their entire families.

I guess Patrick is a story, which tries to examine this, (madness) in a humorous sort of way. It's also a story about child abuse. And an extremely domineering father. Who even after his death, still holds control over his son. In a sad way, Patrick finds life hard to cope with, without his abusive father's presence. Who had rared him, in a very sick, and twisted way.

I know Alfred Hitchcock was very keen to explore what unhinged an individual. I wonder what he would think of my attempt to explore it here.

In one night alone, I wrote about 35 pages - by hand. So it'll be completed in the next few days -easily. I read some of it myself, and I think it's in a dark way, funny. It's not terrifying. But maybe it's best to caution readers at the same time.

I would like to remind readers also. This story is a complete work of fiction. And it does not reflect in anyway, on the town of Tralee, in County Kerry.