An ancient demon wreaks havoc, horror and hilarity in the nation’s Capital until an immigrant’s daughter can fulfill her destiny to stop it!

SYNOPSIS:

“Washington Horror Story”© is an hour-long mixed genre series offering funny, creepy, dramatic, supernatural, and satirical looks at the (fictional?!) horrors occurring in our nation’s Capital. Its diverse ensemble cast of different ages will appeal to a gamut of audiences. It will incorporate current issues while still retaining character-driven journeys to advance the good-versus-evil arc, with many laughs along the way! This series will be unique, timely, and bitingly entertaining!

Heroine Angela de la Paz, the orphaned daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, is destined to destroy the ancient river demon, Ardua of the Potomac. Forced at age fourteen into spy training, Angela will develop her supernatural psychic abilities even as she keeps them hidden from the evil secret society which employs her and tramples her morals. The call to her higher purpose will also be drowned out by the grief and bitterness of losing loved ones -- especially her first boyfriend, whose death will launch her on a vengeful and supernaturally lethal killing spree. Accidental motherhood, giving up her baby, and the deaths of her first two handlers will eventually allow her to find her way to the circle of extraordinary people (the dog whisperer, Taiwanese herbalist, Hong Kong spy, Puerto Rican Coast Guard officer, and Powhatan descendants) who can help her fulfill her destiny to destroy Ardua and liberate Washington from the evil that has poisoned it from the start!

Secondary plot lines will usually (but not always) follow love stories and politics. Recurrent themes will include:

An ancient evil has always haunted Washington, D.C., duh!

What if Washington were doomed from the start to endless cycles of evil because...an ancient demon haunts the Potomac River?! What if evil begat evil, which begat evil, which begat...? From ghosts in the White House to the Zombie Caucus in Congress, from residential demons to evil animals, from a cursed Rolex to a -- alright, you get the idea!

Girl Power!

While men have many strong roles in “Washington Horror Story”©, women will lead the way! And it is teenager Angela de la Paz who holds the moral and supernatural key to the ultimate demise of the demon “Ardua of the Potomac”.

Americans!

Whoa, are we really going there? Yes! We start in the pilot, with an African-American war veteran brought in to exterminate White House rats while a Nazi on staff analyzes Hitler’s D.N.A. sequences to those of “John Doe”! Bi-cultural and multi-cultural characters reflect the true ethnic and sociological diversity of the D.C. area -- except in places where the diversity remains lacking (e.g., big law firms, Federal government, Alt-Right). Two indigenous characters take the theme much further than is seen on most television programs. Finally, our heroine Angela is the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants -- one of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Washington.

Washington is nuts!

Is anybody NOT saying that these days? Some have said it is no longer possible to satirize Washington, but the author disagrees! From the Zombie Caucus to a deranged conspiracy theorist, from the Reiki Triplets to monthly meetings of Sense of Entitlement Anonymous (D.C. Chapter) -- there will be no shortage of absurd comic relief! Mixed in will be some heavy-hitting scenes, including the pilot’s White House Nazi scene!

Power! This series will bestow its greatest power of good on the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants and its greatest power of evil on an ancient demon. Along the course of the series, various characters will absorb evil and re-energize Ardua with their own evil (in an echo chamber effect). Others will straddle good and evil until slowly moving towards tipping the balance of power away from Ardua of the Potomac and into the light.

THE SWAMP