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Blitz, fiction by Caroline Kepnes

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Rusty

It was snow­ing pret­ty hard and I was dri­ving with one eye open. Not anoth­er car in sight, I nev­er could under­stand how a per­son lives in a place where oth­er cars are up on you all the time. I … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Frack Your Wells and Fuck Your Water

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Rusty

Why isn't any­one talk­ing about this? Or am I not look­ing in the right places? And by the way, duh. Gas drilling in Appalachia yields a foul byprod­uct Map shows the Mar­cel­lus Shale for­ma­tion in the East­ern U.S. (P. Prenga­man — AP) By … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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2009 Million Writers Nominations

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Rusty

Good luck, chick­en scratch­ers. Sto­ry 1: "Bent Coun­try" by Shel­don Lee Comp­ton https://​fried​chick​e​nand​cof​fee​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​0​6​/​3​0​/​b​e​n​t​—​c​o​u​n​t​r​y​—​b​y​—​s​h​e​l​d​o​n​—​l​e​e​—​c​o​m​p​t​on/ Sto­ry 2: "Jus­tice Boys" by Sheryl Monks https://​fried​chick​e​nand​cof​fee​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​0​7​/​2​4​/​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​—​b​o​y​s​—​b​y​—​s​h​e​r​y​l​—​m​o​n​ks/ Sto­ry 3: "Blind Lemon" by Jim Parks https://​fried​chick​e​nand​cof​fee​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​0​6​/​0​4​/​b​l​i​n​d​—​l​e​m​o​n​—​b​y​—​j​i​m​—​p​a​r​ks/

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The Glorious Fit, fiction by Ray Norsworthy

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Rusty

Novem­ber 1, 1961: Gib­by is in the hayloft of the barn look­ing at the pages he tore out of the Sears and Roe­buck cat­a­logue. This morn­ing when he was look­ing at the Christ­mas toys and mak­ing a wish list, Eli showed … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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News Flash–Southern Appalachia is Hot Fictional Territory!

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Rusty

Who woul­da guessed?  This is from Bri­an Cook at Book Pub­lish­ing News. I wish I knew the orig­i­nal source. "Books based on life in small town south­ern Appalachia sell like hot­cakes!" stat­ed one pub­li­cist. Accord­ing to book sales data, from … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Rounder, non-fiction by Jennifer McGaha

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Rusty

I have tried many times before to write about my grandfather’s youngest broth­er, Bill, but I can nev­er get it quite right—how his mouth turns into that half grin before he curls his lips to one side and squirts tobac­co … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Marcellus Shale and Natural Gas Drilling

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Rusty

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVNgwMGEObE&feature=player_embedded] This series of videos tak­en in Col­orado tells me it's not just coal, either. In North­ern Appalachia now (where I grew up) there has been a boom–maybe even a mega-boom–in nat­ur­al gas drilling of the Mar­cel­lus Shale area, and … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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A Requirement for Respect

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Rusty

Self-explana­­to­ry. by Rebec­ca Gayle How­ell. Orig­i­nal­ly deliv­ered on behalf of Ken­tuck­ians For The Com­mon­wealth, at 21c Muse­um. Louisville, Ken­tucky. Decem­ber 06, 2009. The peo­ple of East­ern Ken­tucky – West Vir­ginia, East Ten­nessee – have been treat­ed as the ‘Oth­er Amer­i­ca’ for … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Coal Giant Massey Called Out for 12000 Pollution Violations

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Rusty

(Pho­to: U.S. Nation­al Archives, 1974) All that coal comes with bag­gage and out­rage and few enough peo­ple seem to even know about it, let alone get their backs up about it. Envi­ron­men­tal groups to sue Massey Ener­gy for ignor­ing thou­sands of … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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The Chickens, fiction by Jim Nichols

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Rusty

Arnold walked up the new­­ly-plowed dirt road, feel­ing the brit­tle cold on his face, look­ing ahead at the cross­ing framed by high, clean snow banks. He knew that a week was prob­a­bly not long enough to stay away, but he … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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