Being a House

I'm writing a story for the ghost anthology. And I was going to do somewhere in the UK, but then a realized I would (once again), have to make obscure references to things people may not have heard of.

So I chickened out and wrote about a place in St Louis. And I gave it to some people to read, and they thought it was good, but ordinary. We moved on, and were talking about someone else's story, and odd POV. I had one of those 'on the verge of a realization' moments.

It took about a day before I got to thinking that I could probably shift the POV of the story, to that of the house. Which blows existing tension out of the water, but means I can put it somewhere else.

I started writing it. Turns out haunted houses are Borg-like entities. Now I have to think about how the system works.

Why does fiction always come down to system? I'm having much the same problem with The Road to Hell.

Perhaps I should become a power gamer for a while...