It's
small town Nebraska in the late 1970's and life in the small
Midwestern town is quiet and uneventful. That's what Libby Marshall
and Bobby Menedez think until Bobby's cousin, Ramon is beaten by a
group of white boys. Racial tension is high after the beating and
it's soon revealed that something quite evil lies hidden Under the
Western Sky.
Excerpt from Under the Western Sky
Bobby still didn't have his shirt on. Maria winced, sucking in a breath as
he passed her.
"Did
Danny do that?" She pressed her hand on his side.
"Yeah."
He flinched away from her fingers as they probed a particularly
sensitive spot. "F**k, Mia, don't do that!" He said more
loudly than he intended.
"What's
that language I'm hearing in my house?" His mother called from
the kitchen.
"Nothing,
Mamá! It was a perfect stranger who said that," Bobby
called from the hallway.
"If
he was perfect, he wouldn't use that kind of...." His mother
stood in the living room, a pancake turner in one hand, an oven mitt
in the other. When she saw Bobby's chest, she stopped talking. "Oh,
Jesus Maria!" She crossed herself as she approached him.
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2018 Dellani Oakes
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