Ronnie Fairchild hates his brother. He always has. Mick’s a bastard. A weight hanging heavy round everyone’s neck and a reminder of a wrong not ever made right. But when their momma dies, leaving a last rites demand to find his daddy, Ronnie’s going to uncover a whole heap of trouble tracking him down. And when that bombastic journey leads him to a no good Texan motel with his sorry-for-nothing brother laying wait to settle a debt, by GAWD, there’s going to be hell to pay.
Blood history ain't nothing new in Hazard, Kentucky. Goes back as far as the coal runs deep and the Fairchilds are just the top of the mountain of bad'n's that come from them hills. As Ronnie sets to make peace with what he's done, he'll have to confront the past acts of violence that led him to that motel parking lot.
A sixty year jaunt down memory lane, this sprawling honkey-tonk saga is chock full of striking miners, mountain men, booze runners, gambling addicts, Dixie mafia-Mason-family dynasty, Nascar, Elvis crooners, natural disasters, gun thugs, Unions, legends, railroad men, proper New York aristocracy running amok against always-been-here-hill-folk, Irish, Scottish, Gullah, red, black, and white, all of ‘em working for Davis Brother’s Mining collective in the 30’s, 60’s, and what would come with the aftermath of that blood history’s violence, the 90’s. Some of it taking place elsewhere like Texas, Georgia, and down country road divides but the majority of it seeping and rooting in Hazard the most dangerous town in all of Kentucky.
"When I think of Southern Crime Fiction nowadays, the first name that springs to mind is Ashley Erwin. She has something that I always look for in a writer. The ability to blend prose and poetry seamlessly whilst writing about the darker side of life. If you haven’t read her phenomenal Grit Black Blood yet, I suggest you go purchase it from her publisher Shotgun Honey ASAP. In the meanwhile, here’s Ashley in her own words for another Punk Noir Interview."
Stephen Gold, Writer, Editor of Punk Noir Magazine
Started up a devilishly good short story series. Gonna filter 'em out over a couple publications. Trust me, ya don't want to leave these in the dark too long, they's the type that bite.
'54, Cheap Pop
"Willard Tell," Shotgun Honey
"Thunderstruck" at Revolution John
Now in print, the devious, the absurd, the damnably entertaining "Mayhem and Motherfuckery" in Switchblade Magazine....get it while it's hot.
Cowboy Jamboree's "Grotesque to Art" my story "Gravestone Gathering Otherwise Known as a Booze Bloodetta"
The latest and the greatest, A Woodman's Tenterhook in The Tripper
A Ballad Concerning Black Betty or the Retelling of a Man Killer and her Machete
Noir From The Bar, "Kudzo Queen"
https://www.amazon.com/Noir-Bar-Crime-Mystery-Shorts-ebook/dp/B089CDSGQW
"Hitman from Hazard"
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Waters-vol-Kirstyn-Petras/dp/B0CP6K9F3Y
First Chapter of Woman on the Screen
https://www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2023-part-i/erwin
Hard, gutter, mean, and lean, folks. That's what I like to slang...grime bathed and dirty water delivered! From Atlanta to Seattle to England and back to LA! Carving out some of the toughest, roughest, meanest sumbitches this here world's done ever seen...I mean real, true, forged in fire sorta word grenades what we're handing out here!
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