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About Hortense

This woman took professional labor hours and creative work from a professional developer, who took pity on her and worked for hours, free of charge, because Hortense was the widow of her brother, a very wealthy but deeply disturbed man who had spent his life trying to reconcile and then succomed to his demons.

During his youth, the brother presented as charasmatic, charming those around him at first, but his truly unpleasant temperment and nature eventually revealed itself and as such, he was unable to maintain love with women when they saw through his mask, leaving him alone to persue their lives with honorable partners.

In his youth, The Man had wanted to live rightously, but like a Man Hunter, he succomed to his natural urges to ruin parties, ungladden events, hoard money, hunt and steal and dupe others to his whims, even deceiving his hag aunt from begetting her fruitful estate to her own children, tricking her instead into secretly naming himself sole heir.

Thus was his miserable existance.

The Man was powerless to ONE being, his old hag mother. She herself was a duplicitious creature, who, through one sexual encounter, enslaved a simple man into a lifetime of financial servitude, threatening to reveal his onetime sin to his highly-thought religious parents and family while she fornicated with her drunken lover, who was the father of all her neglected children, including The Man.

The Man wanted, desparately to relieve himself from his endentured status to the Hag, understading that the only way to buy his freedom was to replace himself with another servant, The Man found and married a loud, obnoxious (thus childless) old maid, grateful and eager to get any husband at all. her name awas Hortense.

For five years, he continued his deception and debauchery against others, plying his feigned charm to fool them into doing what he wanted.

As for Hortense, The Man bade her work in service to himself and his mother The Hag, forcing Hortense to live in the basement of a house next door to his ancient hag mother, requiring her to pledge her loyalty to a position of constant service to himself and the Hag.

Sadly, Hortense was obnoxious and loud, making all around her wonder if that affect was pretense or natural, prescribed earnestness.