All Things
Onionhouse
June 21, 2019
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The Award Winning
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Sun of Brass, Moon of Tin
A pre-electric gothic, set against the dark dream fields of Kansas. During the course of one plague-stricken summer, a silent farm boy makes his way toward manhood. But a leering menace stands athwart his path.
Read an excerpt here:
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Or read the whole short story at...
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That entire site is worth exploring. Paul Guernsey (the editor) maintains it like a well-provisioned cellar. The shelves are stocked with old masters: Poe and Blackwood, for example. But further back (behind Norman Bates' mother) you'll find writers of more recent vintage. Leonard Onionhouse, for example. Go and waste a little time there.
It's December 1942, and the home front hums at max capacity as broad shouldered cities forge the juggernauts of war. Prosperity has returned: paychecks and overtime, pot roast on the table. The blighted years of not so distant memory lie buried in the past. Better not to recollect, better to look ahead. But like the restless pulse of industry, the past does not sleep.
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Aging boxer, Mugs Traherne returns to the city that once lauded him, then reviled him, then forgot him. One time champ and millionaire, now a ragged drifter on the bum. Yet the old fires still smolder, and the violence that once won, then lost a fortune still whispers in his fists. Mugs has a few more punches left to throw, before he punches out.
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December 1942, and a reckoning is due. The proud will tumble from their perches, and the powerful will bleed when...
{Due out mid-winter 2019/2020}
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Read the opening chapter here: