Blurb:
In this collection of 14 speculative short stories, author
A.A. Garrison takes us to Ford, North
Carolina, a sleepy little mountain town named after a
Civil War deserter. Though out of the way, the town seems to attract an
immoderate share of the fantastic and the macabre.
Amongst Ford’s citizens are:
- Blake (“The Fifty”), who purchases revenge with a fifty-dollar bill
- Candy Patrice (“Cloyed”), a young woman who adopts a most unorthodox diet-plan
- Mara Dees (“Additive Free”), the unlikely star in a grisly scheme to appease visitors from outer space
- Johannes Bitter (“Half Dead”), an undertaker with an exceptional case of lady trouble
- Kay Barry (“The Minutes”), a woman on her way to a fateful real-estate closing
- The Doctor (“See Sick”), a roving voyeur who sees more than he bargains for
- Roy Mitchell (“The Imaginal”), a professional shipper who spends an enlightening night with himself
- Frank Belmont (“Dead End”), who goes hunting for nostalgia and finds trouble
- Patrick Timothy (“Hoodoo”), a Charlotte reporter investigating the mysterious Bailer cult headquartered in Ford
- Brian (“Brian, Destroyer of Worlds”), who becomes the first man to commit murder by coffee
- Zedok Crane (“The Package”), amnesic serial killer extraordinaire
- Don Frangipani (“The Gardener”), Ford’s only retired cookbook author, and the victim of a subterranean horror’s malefic horticulture
- And The Narrator (“The Center”), a man who saw the face of God and forgot his own name
But don’t let them scare you off. The town isn’t all bad. We’ll
grab a bite at the Burger Boy and then see the Cado Kid show tonight. It’s
really a fine little burg, a place you could settle down. Welcome to Ford.
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