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Deep Mud
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Evolved Publishing
Published: Mar 16 2020
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the early 70s, the past sins of one man led to the punishment of an entire town, bringing murder, passion, unrequited love, and a connection to the strangest chain of events imaginable.
Atascadero, (Spanish for Deep Mud) in the early 70s boasts a drive-in theater and a Burger Queen where teens gather on Saturday nights. Lovers head up to Lake Success, and gas is $0.32 a gallon at the Shell station-the one with the 'S' knocked out by vandals. Nothing ever happens in Deep Mud, until someone straps Mayor Suggs to a skyrocket during the Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza, and he explodes all over the townsfolk.
Soon after, a popular family physician resurrects his dead wife, daughter, and several others with mixed results. A failed high school baseball pitcher is gifted with a 95 MPH fastball by the spirit of a murdered child, someone has freed the animals from Chaffey Zoo-including a Bengal tiger-and a stalker is going around in a 'Tricky Dicky' mask attacking people with a pair of pliers.
Only Ricardo Meneses, teenage son of Mexican immigrants, can save Deep Mud. He possesses the 'cursed jewel, ' which he must return to the grave.
EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a compelling literary/magical realism tale loaded with characters you'll never forget.
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