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mark-maynard's picture
Dec.08.2012
A truck driver with the I.Q. of a child drives his empty rig up anddown the Interstate as an homage to his dead mother (“Deadheading”),two convicts seek redemption by helping a group of horses gettheir freedom beyond the gates (“Penned”), a pawnshop owner sensesthe painful past of the many objects...
harry-shannon's picture
Jun.19.2012
Co-authored with Steven W. Booth Meet Sheriff Penny Miller of Flat Rock, Nevada. Miller is the kind of woman who will do whatever it takes to protect those she is sworn to serve, even when that includes a murderous biker, her wimpy ex-husband, a unit of incompetent National Guardsmen, and the...
scott-lankford's picture
Feb.09.2012
Lake Tahoe transformed America, and not just once but many times over from the earliest Ice Age civilizations, to the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe. It helped in the American conquest of California, the launch of the Republican Party, and the ignition of the western Indian wars. And along...
madison-smartt-bell's picture
Dec.08.2011
Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels...
lynn-romaine's picture
Sep.24.2009
SAMANTHA NEALLY is in hiding. Abandoned by her mother at eleven, she was implicated in an ecoterrorist firebombing at eighteen. Since then, she’s been living in the Nevada desert, lonely and afraid. But all that is about to change when undercover FBI agent Joe Roper turns up. He insinuates himself...