Imagine waking up in the morning, going outside and the sun hasn’t come out. It’s completely dark, so much so that even at night, there are no stars in the sky. That’s the scenario our characters find themselves in the book Darkness at the Edge of Town by Brian Keene. As if that isn’t horrifying enough, the darkness seems to be almost like a dome over the small town of Walden, WV. There is no electricity, radios only play static, nothing can get in and […]
Family Dinners Are Killer
We begin with an anniversary. A family prepares to mourn the one year loss of a son and brother but there are two problems–the family is so fractured that they don’t even want to be in the same room as each other and two, there’s a madman who plans on killing them all because of the secrets they are keeping from one another. From the outside the family seems to have everything. They have a loving dog, a gigantic house with all the fancy amenities, […]
Burn to Rise Again
Phoenixville Rising has three intertwined stories spanning different time periods. We’ve got the central story of Tara, Boo and Sketch, teenagers in the ’80’s living in the small town of Phoenixville “where nothing really ever happens”. We have the story of Rebecca Wilton from the Civil War time period growing up as Phoenixville is just starting to grow (her father is responsible for that growth); and then we have the story of Sketch, present day, returning to Phoenixville for the first time in many, many […]
Is Good a Euphemism for Stupid?
As you can see I picked up just about any book that someone said was like Gone Girl or Girl on the Train this summer…and I’ve been burned people, burned I say! But YOU may love it because it looks like my opinion is not the popular sentiment. Mia Dennett is a 25 year old art teacher and daughter of a judge. One evening, after her boyfriend stands her up she makes the decision to go home with a man named Colin whom she meets […]