Author Archives: Rusty
Class Issues, or Everything's OK if You've Got the Money
Check out what Paul Toth has to say on the issue: "in every case in which multiculturalism is addressed by textbook and/or professor, nowhere to be found is any mention of economic class diversity. As I see it, poor whites, blacks and … Continue reading
Marcellus Shale Issues in February Alone
According to Steve Reilly at the Sayre Morning Times, the hits are already here and will keep coming. I'll link the whole article, but let me just cut to the good stuff (emphases mine): Several incidents and fines related to … Continue reading
Post-War Heat by Murray Dunlap
Slick with sweat, Sweets stops at the cargo train tracks to catch his breath and fan himself with the Mobile Press Register. He shuffles under the welded arch of the main entrance to the Alabama Dry Docks and a uniformed … Continue reading
Tenth Frame Spare, fiction by Timothy Gager
Benji watched Kevin scratch his crotch with his left hand while he poked his meaty fingers into a 16-pound bowling ball with his right. The semester had just begun and the place was packed. “So how do I look?” he … Continue reading
New Stylings for the Chicken
I'm messing with layout and things, as you no doubt have seen, hence the lack of new content. I'm trying to migrate all my links and et ceteras from the original Blogger account, and I have to do it piecemeal. … Continue reading
Revelations, fiction by Tamara Linse
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revelations 20:10 Dan, Killer, and … Continue reading
Fracking Good/Fracking Bad
This first article, basically a rehashed press release if you ask me, gives you the gas company perspective, as well as the web address of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a group of (wait for it–not government regulators, not community members, … Continue reading
Bottom Dog Press's Appalachian Working-Class Fiction
I should have known about these folks long ago, yeah? Somewhere along the line I found out about them and forgot until recently, when Charles Dodd White told me about an anthology he'd be editing with Page Seay. More on … Continue reading
Ringlets, fiction by Jim Parks
Rosalie's hair is glossy and black, as glossy and black as a raven's wing. It hangs down over her sun-bronzed shoulders and back in ringlets she makes with a curling iron. She reaches up and back to grasp a sheaf of these … Continue reading
