I was thinking of sometime trying my hand at an urban fantasy, but not like the typical kind. I really don't care for the ones where elves hang out at shopping malls, the man living down the hall from you is a werewolf, there are trolls in the sewers and a dragon in the subway tunnels. I was thinking more along the lines of American take on the Ruritanian Romance: a story set in an imaginary city instead of an imaginary country. The most famous example would be Gotham City in the Batman Mythos. But there are other examples, mostly in comics and movies: Frank Miller's Sin City, the nameless city of the Walter Hill movie "Streets of Fire," the city in the movie "Dick Tracy". I really don't know if there are many examples of what I'm talking about in regular literature. I had been thinking of populating my city with the ethnic descendents of a now-defunct Ruritanian type imaginary European country, but they would all secretly practice a pre-Christian pagan religion with its own pantheon of gods and its own mythology. The idea has been bouncing around in my head for years; I just haven't gotten around to writing it out as a story.