R. W. Watkins
Bus Ride To Dorchester
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( Feb. 4, 2012)
‘Bus Ride to Dorchester’ is a preview story from Like A Crimson Gash: Dark Tales Of Daring Youth—a collection in progress by R. W. Watkins.
The majority of the stories in the forthcoming volume are of a semi-autobiographical nature. In the case of ‘Bus Ride’, Watkins draws on a dark byproduct of his starting school in the mid 1970s; specifically, his awakening to the sinister undercurrents of the adult world after making the acquaintance of a troubled (yet often hilarious) older girl from a dysfunctional family. The result is a disturbingly funny tale of murder, ghostly apparitions, mental illness and sexual deviance.
As with ‘Bus Ride to Dorchester’, the other stories that will constitute Like A Crimson Gash demonstrate Watkins’s unique blend of mystery, dark humour, youthful themes, and forays into the paranormal. With influences ranging from Laird Koenig to David Lynch to Charles Burns, Watkins’s short fiction bridges several genres, and is accessible both as serious adult literature and challenging youth prose.
The majority of the stories in the forthcoming volume are of a semi-autobiographical nature. In the case of ‘Bus Ride’, Watkins draws on a dark byproduct of his starting school in the mid 1970s; specifically, his awakening to the sinister undercurrents of the adult world after making the acquaintance of a troubled (yet often hilarious) older girl from a dysfunctional family. The result is a disturbingly funny tale of murder, ghostly apparitions, mental illness and sexual deviance.
As with ‘Bus Ride to Dorchester’, the other stories that will constitute Like A Crimson Gash demonstrate Watkins’s unique blend of mystery, dark humour, youthful themes, and forays into the paranormal. With influences ranging from Laird Koenig to David Lynch to Charles Burns, Watkins’s short fiction bridges several genres, and is accessible both as serious adult literature and challenging youth prose.
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