This is an example of how to write a story, the following covers most of what can be said, so to fill in the details I could develop a story as to how the person Graham was in Australia in the year 1860. By stating about his childhood then giving him a life on a long boat which caused him to work as a clerk for a transport firm. Going out for the weekend he found himself in need of food so he stole some food but got caught. Sentenced and charged he was presented to a magistrate and given 10 years labour with transport to Australia. There should be enough for a page or two of the story. Of his time in prison in Australia and on the work gang could be another page with an expanded view of his continued fall from grace to his time in a convict establishment (prison).
Write of the backstory of the island prison. The story continues to increase in size, add to that his development to being a witch/ sorceror or wizard.
The Islands Prison
Graham had worked on Brian and Marion Baxter’s farm for several years, he would busy himself repairing their fences, helping to extinguish bush fires whenever one ravaged the land. Feeding their animals and repairing the animals enclosures as and when they needed to be repaired. When the time was convenient he would burn wood to make the charcoal for the kitchen. One eventful day the woman’s husband Brian had been kicked by a horse and had died from his injuries, Graham continued to honour the agreement that had been made with the husband. One day when he was repairing the wall of the outhouse for the chickens he was trapped in the woman’s kichen when two men had gone there to force her to feed them, not having any food at that time the men said they did not believe her and began to take out their rage of her. Graham had stepped in and attempted to save the woman. I say attempted as the woman succumbed to her beatings by the men and Graham had caused the deaths of the two men. With no one to speak for him the state troopers decided that Graham had killed all three.
Taken to a convicts yard when he was presented to the magistrate he was found guilty of the multiple murders, Graham was sentenced to life in prison. A lenient sentence though Graham knew no doubt that he would be killed in prison, either by any one of the other convicts or by a warden, by accident of course.
Graham had been in the towns prison four two years since he had been sentenced to life for the murder of a woman and two men. He had begun to think he would live out his days in the prison, so it was a great surprise when two guards opened his cell door and told him he would be moved to the Islands Prison. Unable to form a coherent argument he was silent. The elder of the prisons guards smiled as he said they would be moving him later that day. Distraught at being told of the move he managed to complain about the move to a couple of prisoners who hated him, though they wished him no good they granted him their forgiveness. “May you find our forgiveness to you gives you the help you will need there,” said Marvin. Graham knew that they wished him well purely because they knew of the threat that he now faced. A prison guard who had overheard him offered his best wishes for a quick end to his life, “Rumour has it that even the most hardened convicts who had been at the prison had spoken of their fears of going to the island prison,” said guard twenty eight. The convict begged to be killed rather than go there though the prison warden had told him, “Not to be afraid as no one had said what life was like on the Island prison as no convict had ever been allowed off the island, alive!”
Graham was grateful that the other convicts in the prison would offer him their pity. Even the prison guards felt a degree of compassion for him, they allowed him extra time in the shower that morning as one of the guards said, “You never know when you will get another shower.” Before the midday meal he was taken from the prison to a prison transport wagon to be transported down to the docks where he was shackled to a large heavy cannonball. No prospect of escape was given to him as he was thrown onto his second to last transport vessel.
On the way to the island several of the convicts spoke of what they saw on the island, columns of flames that rose into the sky in the shape of a demon’s head, figures of shadows that wandered on the coast towards them. When they reached the jetty they were shackled behind a wagon and slowly pulled towards the hated prison. At the start of the road to the prison a preacher gave them their final blessing, he told them that many of those in the island prison had begun to praise the devil, in the hope he would forgive them their sins and allow them to die.
Not many found forgiveness from the devil, though it was given to them from another convict. Many of the wardens would try to say the Devil forced them to do it. The only difference being that it was hoped that a death by the Devil would be quicker.
The first Graham knew his current predicament was when the preacher walked away from them, each of the convicts looked to each other for friendship, they knew that in the event of any persecution a friend would be the only escape they might have. The gates to the rest of their lives opened, each convict considered there would be no help offered to them beyond those gates. By altering the names you can make the tale of the series.
Allow your imagination to flow, as long as you can explain in a believable manner why he becomes what he becomes.
