A book of Southern Gothic short stories of flawed characters caught in sinister situations. A senior older brother calls his sister to pay for his prostitute. A dissatisfied young housewife attends a Total Woman seminar. Twirling class from a tyrannical band director. Just a few of the East Texas hard-living souls erupting from Small Texas , a collection of short stories from the wild mind of Cindy Marabito. Deliverance meets Car Wheels on a Gravel Road with Carson McCullers riding shotgun.
Cindy Marabito is a longtime writer and author of Pit Bull Nation, Jackson and Jules, the Truth Finder. She directed and produced the movie The Dicks From Texas about the punk rock hardcore Austin, TX band along with a double covers cd featuring great Dicks songs covered by great bands, The Dicks From Texas and Friends. Cindy is the creator of Cowbells and Ding Dongs, a podcast with its big toe never straying too far past Austin City Limits.
Cindy penned the American Pit Bull Examiner column for over five years along with several other blogs. Cindy was Detour Magazine’s Video Detour editor for two years and currently writes F--k You I'm From Texas Film Talk blog. Hard at work right this minute on Free Lunch, a racy go-to on the crazy decadent Dallas 80’s and The Legend of Sky Diamond, a fake lowdown memoir on the DFW downlow.
Coming soon this summer for your crazy-ass beach reading....Small Texas, a collection of Cindy's short stories all about the strange and wonderful characters sprung from the deep bowels of the East Texas Piney Woods.
This book is one of short stories, with amazing characters, full of flaws. Who find themselves in some dark sinister situations. All living in East Texas. An older brother, who asks his sister to pay for his prostitute. A dissatisfied young housewife, Amelia a horrible tyrannical band director. ohh a a job interview, that leads to death. Brilliant Gothic book.