Well thank you. I don't have any plans to continue this one at the moment, but we'll see. Mostly I would need some inspiration for how the rest would unfold in a way that would be fresh and justify the time and effort to read.
I understand where Juan is coming from. I was inspired by one of his stories, "Sentence Negotiation," to write "The Throwaway Girl" in which I incorporated his story at the beginning, made a few changes, expanded it then took off with it. The damn thing is the length of a novel now, and people say they like it. As much as I like "Checking in for Punishment" I'm afraid if I tried to write a story based on it, it might end up sounding too much like the last chapters of "The Throwaway Girl."
We already know that Jessica is going to be taken from the waiting room and crucified. There could be description of her whipping, carrying her cross, being nailed and raised. What then? Crucifixion is slow, agonizing and tedious as hell. Up, down, up, down, how many times can you describe that? You need another story running along with it to fill in the dead time and make it interesting.
In "The Throwaway Girl," there was torture and whipping on the cross, the obnoxious TV reporter was interviewing her, the lawyer and the judge were trying to find a legal loophole to get her taken down from the cross, there was the stupid bureaucracy, and her brother the sniper was setting up to shoot her and put her out of her misery. Believe me, I was grasping for whatever story threads I could weave in to bolster up a five-day crucifixion. It is NOT easy.
Juan has these great ideas, inspiring, actually. I have loved every one of his I've read. But I think it's too much to ask him to build a complete story that will hold our interest to the end, that's not what he does. He has ideas, scenarios that are fascinating. That's his gift.