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Wk 4: The Last True Confessions of Elwood Peace

There is the title of week 4′s short story. The story of a man on death row who has acquiesced to a request by the local church to hear his final confession on the condition that there is also a journalist, a specific journalist, there to tell his story. Why now, after all these years, would he finally agree to tell his story?

It is the night of his execution and he tells the story of his daddy, a  cold blooded and ruthless man, and also of his own raising. It beings in the early twentieth  century in the deep south and spans two decades and four states. Life, as a child, on the run from the law and how he turned to a life of murder himself. Finally all what brought him from the deep south to the frigid north and to his execution.

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Wk 3: The Ballad of Heesop Lowe.

The Ballad of Heesop Lowe is a story in the rich history of noir. It���s a detective story of Louisianan Detective First Class Paul Worthwhile and his investigations into the Bear murders. The Bear murders were a string of what was thought to be suicides but weren’t. 

It was a bit of a cheat for me as this was a complete rewrite of an older story I had laying around but I changed so much it really is a brand new story,

Looks like A Town Called Grace, or Night Country, weren’t ready to be written yet.