Blogs in July 2020

A Fine Dark Line 8th July 2020

13-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. spends most of his time helping his family run the town’s drive-in movie theatre, reading ten-cent comics, and playing with his dog Nub. Life in East Texas circa 1958 is not very exciting until Stanley...

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The Big Blow 6th July 2020

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns...

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Sunset and Sawdust 6th July 2020

In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he tries to beat and rape her. To Camp Rapture’s general consternation, Sunset’s mother-in-law arranges for her to take over from Pete as...

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The Bottoms 5th July 2020

The Edgar Award winning thriller The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air...

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