In the early years just after the turn of the new millennium, rural towns like Old Milfoil and its neighbors sit quietly in their county seat in Southern Arizona, conservative and content with that breed of Americana so peculiar to the Gadsden Purchase.
But drug use and disappearances fester within any small town, beneath the masks of constancy and wholesomeness. And America's water utilities are old, her pipes corroded, her treatment plants understaffed, outdated, and easily broken into.
That Old West nostalgia filters out the children of single mothers, the mentally ill, debt-burdened students, and those who would expand their consciousness with mind-altering chemicals.
As if that weren't enough, the old things, motiveless by any human ethic, stare down from above.
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For fans of out-of-the-box strange fiction, Twin Peaks, American Gods, Stephen King's epic horror classic, It, and Danielewski's debut novel and ergodic ode to sanity, House of Leaves.
