SNAKETOWN
SNAKETOWN
the songtrack, is currently under construction for
the novella, SNAKETOWN
Preacher Orville Cade quoting from the Bible: "Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman, but you have not spoken to warn the wicked man against his ways, and if you have not warned the evil man, you will have saved his life, and an evil on all of you."
beginning
THEY COULDN'T FIND BUDDY'S LITTLE GIRL, CAYTAS, AND UP OVER BY THE BARN, SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE SUN, VARLA SIBEL THOUGHT SHE COULD SEE THE DOGS TOSSING SOMETHING AROUND, RIPPING AND TEARING AT, AND HAVING A TUG-OF-WAR WITH SOMETHING LIMP AND LIFELESS. SHE STARTED TO RUN.
This is a sentence that came to me in a dream and I later put it together with a song my grandmother used to sing about a child who disappeared on a picnic with her family, and whose bones were later found across the river. I made up a place, Snaketown, and a family, the Sibels, and a very bad man named Orin.
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