The Huge Bang ..... at 47000 words

 The Huge Bang......sure sounds like an orgy. Well, it is more of lovers and families tussling with the combined adapted tales of Vlad the Impaler, Shylock of the Merchant of Venice, and 'Where art thou?" Romeo and Juliet.

I am at the juncture of Romeo meeting Juliet, Vlad soon to be dead, and Shylock offering the loan or a pound of flesh. The start of the tale explores the beginning of the three with several characters to support them. 

Vlad III; we all knew him as Dracula, blood drinker and bloody impaler, but there may be a human side to him. His love for his land and its people and the turmoil of conflicts there. His relationship with his brother, Radu III and his wives. 

Shylock; who was he before he became the money lender? Where was it ever mentioned his younger life? His daughter, Jessica? His wife, Leah (Betcha not many knew of his wife?)? Honestly, at this juncture, I have not figured out where to place in Portia? Will do soon. 

And the Capulets and Montague? Their rivalry begins from when? Was it ...... perhaps love? After all the tale here is about love. Wait...... its Romeo and Juliet here, but how does it link to Shylock and Vlad III? Bloody mess, and ...... add in the era.... coincidence, it was the mid 1400's....... 

And we have a tale. In the words of Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet; 

[MERCUTIO:] This is that very Mab
That plaits the manes of horses in the night
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes.
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage.
This is she—
ROMEO: Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talk’st of nothing.
MERCUTIO: True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air[.] (1.4.89–100)

Queen Mab is her name; a fairy who makes people see dreams that suit their deepest desires, inducing love, lust, money, power, and violence. 

[Chorus]
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

[Verse]
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

Lyrics from Dreams Are Made of these by Eurythmics.

Hey, that is the beauty of a tale.

BANG! BANG!.