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Blogs in August 2020

Burned 10th August 2020

It all started with a dream. Just a typical fantasy, but for a girl raised in a religious–and abusive–family, a simple dream could be the first step toward eternal damnation. Now Pattyn Von Stratten has questions. Questions about God,...

Mountain City 10th August 2020

Mountain City: a rural mining town in Nevada. 84 miles away from anything, the town’s population – once in the thousands -now totals thirty-three. It is a classic tale of fame and fortune, good jobs and promising futures, followed...

Strangers 10th August 2020

They were strangers. A handful of people. From different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common – except fear. They were victims. Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and...

Battleborn 10th August 2020

The stories in Battleborn all unfold in Watkins’s home state of Nevada, from down south in Nye County and Las Vegas, to Reno, Lake Tahoe, and the Blackrock Desert, the site of Burning Man. We are introduced to a...

The Ox-Bow Incident 10th August 2020

Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that...