.. will return later this ayem.. eyes are fading - so stopped to Re-Stack at the ice machine ! .. clear as a desert day - the end result .. fresh eyes for this shooter & reader is what the writing clearly deserves !
Wow Daniel, this is a wild ride- heavy, comic, tragic, unexepcted, all seeming to expect a resolution that never comes. It's like a multiplicity of O. Henry, or the literary inversion of the old song 'El Paso' plus a bunch of other things. Very imaginative.
Thank you, Chris! The idea for this popped into my head last week when Cormac McCarthy passed away. His novel “Blood Meridian” hit me like a sack of brick when I read it in the ‘90s. Thought it’d be fun to write an homage blending a Flannery O’Conner-inspired character from the Christ-haunted South with a Tarantino-inspired “Grind house” setting.
Oh man, this is pure Southern Gothic class. Exactly all those McCarthy/O’Connor feels. Consider my fedora doffed, Daniel. 🔥
Oh thank you for the comment, Adrian! That was precisely what I was going for!
.. will return later this ayem.. eyes are fading - so stopped to Re-Stack at the ice machine ! .. clear as a desert day - the end result .. fresh eyes for this shooter & reader is what the writing clearly deserves !
🦎🏴☠️🎬
Thank you again for the kind comment and the restack! I know all about having to revisit a work with fresher eyes. I just woke up myself! 😀
Loved all the expectation disruptions. Had me on my toes. Vivid imagery.
Thanks again for leaving such a kind comment. 🙏
Wow Daniel, this is a wild ride- heavy, comic, tragic, unexepcted, all seeming to expect a resolution that never comes. It's like a multiplicity of O. Henry, or the literary inversion of the old song 'El Paso' plus a bunch of other things. Very imaginative.
Thank you, Chris! The idea for this popped into my head last week when Cormac McCarthy passed away. His novel “Blood Meridian” hit me like a sack of brick when I read it in the ‘90s. Thought it’d be fun to write an homage blending a Flannery O’Conner-inspired character from the Christ-haunted South with a Tarantino-inspired “Grind house” setting.
*bricks