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Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous - and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum-wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stone's throw away from Dumpster-diving.

Two cups of tea, one old flame, and a stolen flash drive plunge Karen Winters into the past she's determined to leave behind. Caught in the middle of someone else's fight, she'll need every ounce of strength to get back to the man who never really let her go.

When God is generous enogh to show us, we catch glimpses of the anguish He feels at seeing His children harm themselves and hurt one another. Follow a handful of seemingly disconnected people in this short story, through a single day in their lives, as they see the chain reactions caused by their choices. Actions that appear unrelated are often weaved in a delicate web, unseen and orchestrated to produce glorious ends.

Micah and Joshua were more than brothers. They were also serial killers, an unstoppable force of mayhem as they made their way across the Old West to California in search of gold. When they crossed paths with army sergeant and former indian tracker Eddie McCarthy, all their fortunes changed.

Rock Bottom is featured in the noir anthology, To Hell in a Fast Car, edited by John L. French. You are cordially invited to ride-along with a dead man. Fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride.