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rank 3742
word count 12989
date submitted 29.04.2011
date updated 30.04.2011
genres: Fiction, Thriller, Historical Ficti...
classification: moderate
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Salt Bowl Death

Cypher Lx

In the Old West the dead come back. The Reaper and a Soiled Dove may be the only hope. Will their pasts be their destruction?

 

A prehistoric bacterium has devastated the Old West, causing a plague that brings the infected back from death with a craving for human flesh. People are terrified of The Reaper, but are more than willing to pay for his services. Ann, a Soiled Dove, is running from her past and directly into The Reaper's path. Can the town of Fortuna, Arizona survive the secrets that unfold? Or will the walking dead kill them first?

 
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drama, horror, old west, virus, western, zombies

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briantodd wrote 345 days ago

'Salt Bowl Death' has a succinct pitch and I enjoyed the prologue and first chapter of this. Although scene shifting sometimes doesnt work well, yours does. Jebediah is a good MC/narrator and the cowboy/horror mix is effective. I am sure if you used your shelf, engaged with the site more, then this would get a lot of attention.

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AlleJo wrote 390 days ago

Love the tone, right from the start, but it's backstory and very dense. I think for a gripping read to match your storyline that promises suspense and immediacy, you'd do better to start straight in with an immediate scene.

I think this would make a wonderful first line:
As I rode the Camino del Diablo into Fortuna, all's I could think about was...

You have a wonderful rhythm and feeling for the sound of the words - that paragraph is sheer poetry, quite apart from the effective use of words to shock when they're slipped in sideways, and convince, and engage, and make us want to laugh, and force us to read on in curiosity, all at once.

*just a typo: 'shear' should be 'sheer'

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Kevin Sand wrote 390 days ago

Liked it a lot.

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M Morgan wrote 390 days ago

If you've started as you mean to go on then you've got a great book here. I think some of the paragraphs should be shortened, but who the hell am I to judge. Let us know when you upload some more, I'll read on.

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