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February 8, 2024
Hollywood by Connor Coyne #LGBTQ+ #LitFic #MagicalRealism
HollywoodConnor Coyne
Genre: LGBTQ+, Literary, Magical RealismPublisher: Lethe PressDate of Publication: Feb. 3, 2024ISBN: 9781590215944ASIN: B0CP6PG3J1Number of pages: 97Word Count: About 24,000Cover Artist: Inkspiral
Tagline: A new American myth for readers who enjoy a bit of madness in their weird fiction.
Book Description:
Anxious Ophelia steps off the elevated train in the big city, hoping to start a new life with her summer hookup, far from her dissolving family and all of the traumas of industrial Rockville.
Over the course of the next few hours Ophelia will lose her roommate, her money, and eventually, her sense of sanity when she sees a mile-long shark out on the lake, unwitnessed by anyone else, but obviously there, because if it wasn't how did she get so soaked?
Ophelia cannot go back to who she was before sighting the beast, and the friends and opportunities she discovers all proceed from what and how she acts on that first, fierce, drunken night.
Amazon Lethe Press
Excerpt:
One August afternoon, in the midst of the hottest years ever recorded,with the nation crashing through wars, the stock market climbing like Icarustoward the sun, and the City funneling its poor people inland as it closed anddemolished the last of the projects, Ophelia got off the Red Line elevatedtrain at the Thorndale stop, squinted in the sunlight, and kicked her footagainst the platform to free a stone from her sandal.
“Home at last?” she asked herself.
She certainly hoped so. There was so much here, and all of iteverywhere: dozens of dark smears from murdered bubble-gum on each sidewalksquare, hundreds of quartz-bright sidewalk squares lassoing each block, andthousands of glowing, sweltering blocks throughout the City with its millionsof people.
To the west, between the tracks and Broadway, Ophelia made out a videostore, a laundromat, and an internet café, all noisy with activity at four inthe afternoon. To the east, between the tracks and the lake, she saw a canyonof tenement apartments—mostly brick, fronted with stoic windows, severalstories high—going out for three blocks before the real high rises rose fromthe beach, blue and white and glass and concrete, almost unimaginably tall.Their heights arrowed sunlight back toward Ophelia, hitting her from all sides.And here, too, she saw people coming and going in the glow of late summer.
“Please,” she said. “Let this be my home.”
But who was going to answer her? Not the smartly dressed Black mentalking in low voices, laughing softly, leaning out over the tracks to look forthe next train. Not the old Polish woman in the headscarf murmuring her rosaryto herself. Not the train attendant patrolling the platform. Or the sun, thesteel high-rises, the brick tenements, the video store, or the laundromat.
Since nobody would answer Ophelia, she descended the stairs, passed through thestation, and went out into the City.
* * * * *
Five minutes later, Ophelia stood in the lobby of her new apartmentbuilding, buzzing for the super to come down and give her the keys. Thebuilding stood near the corner of Kenmore and Ardmore, just one block fromSheridan Road and the lake. At eight stories high, it was the tallest of itsneighbors, though still dwarfed by the towers just a block away. A white stuccolobby. Moll carpet. Plastic plants standing in shell-shaped alcoves cut intothe wall. Nothing fancy, but with a breeze coursing down the hall from an openfire escape, Ophelia’s new home felt luxurious.
The super arrived and eyed her new tenant suspiciously. Ophelia wasn’ttall, but she was so skinny, especially about her face, that it created anillusion of height. When she looked in the mirror, her prominent cheekbonesreminded her sometimes of a skull and sometimes of a praying mantis. Opheliawas white, pale even, with fine brown hair that wisped gently about hershoulders. She generally considered herself a fairly okay-looking person,whatever her other defects might be. Still, she knew wrinkles and exhaustionwere about the corners of her eyes. Anyone could see this. Everyone noticed.She was only in her early 20s but seldom got carded for alcohol.
The super frowned but must have decided Ophelia was harmless becausethe woman hit the button in the wall, and the elevator dinged in reply. Thesuper pulled open the accordion gate, and as they rose through the building,Ophelia watched each floor sinking out of view. She tried to ignore the stenchof stale piss. They got off at the seventh door. The woman fumbled with thekeys, swearing under her breath in some Slavic language, and opened the door toOphelia’s apartment.
She’d seen Tasia’s pictures, but they didn’t do justice to the place.The hallway opened into a long white living room with a white carpet and a baywindow looking out to the east. Slivers of blue water peeked in from betweenthe lakeside towers. An arch to the left led into a slender kitchen, allFormica and old appliances, while another hall exited the back of the livingroom, passing the first bedroom and the bathroom and ending at a second bedroomwith plenty of closets and built-in shelves along the way. Ophelia spotted acockroach crawling across the stovetop and another in the back bedroom. Still,there was something so happy and fierce about the light and the skylikelinearity of the lake that hope welled up in her chest anyway. This was fine.No, glorious! She’d deal with the roaches later. Maybe after Tasia arrived.
As Ophelia carried out her inspection, the super stood in the livingroom with her hands on her hips, waiting, but there wasn’t much else forOphelia to do: everything had already been settled.
Several months ago, she had told Tasia that she was going to offherself before the end of summer if she didn’t get out of Rockville. “Let’smove to the City,” Tasia had said. “Get jobs. Get a cheap apartment. Hit thebeach. Hit the good stuff.” The joke came up several times before the friendsrealized that they took the idea seriously. Even though Tasia’d gotten herAssociates from the community college, she seemed stuck in dead-end cashier’sjobs and was dying of boredom. Rockville was killing her slowly.
And killing me quickly, Ophelia thought. She’d only been half kiddingabout surviving the summer. So, before she knew it, the two were creatingprofiles on Monster.com, Googling neighborhoods, and emailing old friends fromhigh school who had moved to the City. Tasia drove out one weekend, picked upsome job applications, toured the apartment on Kenmore, and signed the lease.She’d gotten in on a special promo: no security deposit required. Ophelia hadfaxed her signature. They were in.
But if Tasia had set the whole thing up, she also needed another week to tie upthe last loose ends at Spencer’s Gifts. “My manager got caught stealinginventory,” she’d said. “They want to promote me. I haven’t broken the news tothem yet.” So, Tasia stayed behind while Ophelia went ahead with her sleepingbag and a backpack full of cleaning supplies. To get the new place ready. Tomake it homey.
Ophelia thought back to the 4th of July weekend when she’d lain inTasia’s bed with Tasia on top of her and Rockville’s fireworks bursting out thewindows. The taste of shandy on Tasia’s lips and her sturdy weight presseddown. How all the wretchedness and sorrow of all those years had collapsed thatone drunken night. So ... were they friends now? Roommates? Lovers?Friends-with-benefits? With all the planning for their big move, this was onething they hadn’t discussed. Ophelia wasn’t sure if it complicated things orsimplified them.
“Okay?” asked the super.
“Thanks,” said Ophelia. “It’s wonderful.”
“Okay.”
As if on cue, a dull thudding sound—four-to-the-floor with the bassbass bass—started thrumming down from the apartment overhead. The eighth-floorpenthouse.
“Uhhhhh,” groaned the super. “They never stop.”
She let herself out, leaving Ophelia with the music.
* * * * *
It took Ophelia only a short time to unpack. She chose the second bedroom,near the back. It didn’t have a view of the lake, but it got more sun, and shecould see the long sweep of high-rises following the shore and rising towardtheir downtown crescendo. Since she didn’t have a dresser or bed, Opheliastacked her clothes in neat piles along the wall, unrolled her sleeping bag inthe middle of the floor, and crushed a cockroach with her shoe before it couldscurry for cover. Then, with the music still thudding overhead, she shoulderedher backpack and left the building.
Ophelia found a supermarket just past the Thorndale stop on the otherside of the tracks and spent the next half-hour in a reverie, pushing ashopping cart up and down each aisle and wondering what the next month held instore. I could apply to be a cashier here, she thought. I could apply to be ateller at that bank across the street. I wonder if I could apply to work forthe El trains. I’ll need to make money somewhere! She didn’t worry a whole lotabout what she did or didn’t need to buy. She had a crisp hundred in herwallet—a parting gift from her grandpa and some keychain pepper spray—but thiswas just the first of many shopping trips. Right now, she just needed to makeit through the next week. She bought some Bisquick, some eggs, and milk.Instant coffee. Bananas and apples. Bread and peanut butter. A dollar box ofcookies. A six-pack of cheap beer. Paper plates and plastic forks. A tall canof Raid. A small pillow. It ate up half of her money, but it was enough. Shewas halfway home before realizing she had nothing to cook the pancakes in orboil water for coffee. I can go back tomorrow, she thought. The peanut butterand beer will keep me going for tonight.
When Ophelia made it back, the sun was lower in the sky, and shadowscovered the streets below. The thudding upstairs continued. She set her keysand phone on the counter, massaged her sore arms, and noticed that she’d misseda call from Tasia.
“Tasia?” she said when her friend answered.
Tasia gasped. “I didn’t think you’d call back so quick!” she said.
“Why wouldn’t I call back quick? I was carrying groceries. What’s up?”
“I’m bursting! I’m bursting! I can’t lie! I can’t come to the City withyou!”
“What?”
“I was going to turn down the manager job, O, but that was before theymade the offer. I didn’t know it came with such a huge raise. They’re gonna payme twelve an hour. That’s, like, twice what I make now! No way I will get a jobin the City that pays that much. And you know how expensive it is there ...have you seen the gas prices yet?! We didn’t think this through, O. I can’tmove now. It would be crazy. I mean, it would be fucking stupid. I mean, I’m gonnaget fucking health care!”
“Slow down, Taze. We have been planning this for months!”
“I know, I know, I’m so sorry, it was my mistake too. It was just adream, you know? It was a silly dream. A summer thing.”
“But our names are on the lease!”
“No security deposit, remember? So, we’re out that first month, butI’ll make that up in like a month. Maybe two. Point is, I’ll make it up quick!You could get out. It was my fuckup. I signed the lease. We just walk away.Hey, I’m the manager here now. I can hire you. Think how fun that’ll be. We canwork at the mall together. Lunch at the food court. You know you love themburritos!”
Ophelia’s heart was sinking. It was already in the basement laundryroom, and maybe it wouldn’t settle until it reached the bottom of the lake.
“I don’t know, Taze,” she said. “I was ... I was really excited aboutthis. For us. I ... went shopping.”
“Oh, shit. How much money do you spend on us, O? It’s okay, I can payyou back. Now I’m, like, rolling in money! Compared to what I have been. You’llcome back to Rockville, right?”
Ophelia looked helplessly out the window. A seagull sailed down thestreet, caught between cool breezes from the lake and the warmer currentswafting off the brick buildings.
“I don’t know, Taze. I don’t know anything right now. You shocked me. I mean,you surprised me.” She took another long pause. “I have to think about it.”
“I understand. I’m sooo sorry to just drop this. But I’d be crazy notto, you know?”
“I know. I get it.”
“Call me when you make up your mind. I’d love to hook you up.”
Would you love to hook up?! Ophelia cried out in her brain. What doesthis mean? What did that mean? What does anything mean?
“I will,” she said. “I’ll call you soon.”
“Hey, nothing else, we’re paid up through the end of September. Take avacation in the City before you come back!”
* * * * *
It wasn’t anything, Ophelia thought. It couldn’t have been much. Shewas drunk, and I guess I was desperate.
Am desperate.
Ophelia went into the kitchen and took another look at the food she hadbought. She probably had enough money left over for a pot and a pan, but shewasn’t sure that would leave enough for public transit, and if she wanted toget a job, she’d need some train fare. She decided that she could boil waterfor coffee in a pan, leaving her enough to take the train downtown for a week.That’s ridiculous, she thought. Who lives like this? If I go back home, I’vegot a sure thing at the mall. I can go back to Grandpa and Grandma’s. Maybesave up. Maybe try again in a year. Or two. Maybe Tasia and I get a thing going... if she wasn’t just drunk. If she really meant it. A car on the street belowstarted honking. The honking continued, and Ophelia realized the driver waswaiting for someone to come out of another apartment. She was drunk. She didn’tmean it. There’s no way I can stay here, and there’s nothing for me to go backto there, either.
Between the thudding bass and the car honking, Ophelia was starting toget a headache.
She wanted to bang against the ceiling with a broom but didn’t haveone. She opened a beer with the bathroom towel bar, using the trick her brotherhad taught her. She shotgunned the beer, then had a second and a third, andthen she was halfway done, so she went to the bathroom for a pee and drank therest of the beers on the toilet. By then, she was getting dizzy, but at leastdrunkenness was a temporary relief. The honking had finally stopped, but the bassthudded on.
Ophelia went into her bedroom and shut the door, thinking it mightmuffle the sound, but it didn’t. An elevated train of alcohol slammed into herskull. She giggled sadly and reeled. Ophelia knew she was just as drunk asshe’d been when she’d tumbled into bed with Tasia, but she was all alone thistime. The walls and windows swirled around her, the bile danced in her stomach,and her ears popped like fireworks.
“Shut up!” Ophelia said and fell asleep.
About the Author:Connor Coyne (he/him) is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan.
Connor has published several novels and a short story collection, and his work has been featured in Vox.com, Belt Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the director of the Flint-based Gothic Funk Press and is facilitator for the Gloria Coles Flint Public Library‘s writing workshops.
Connor is a graduate of the University of Chicago and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. Today, he lives with his wife and two daughters in Flint’s College Cultural Neighborhood (aka the East Village), less than a mile from the house where he grew up.
Web: http://connorcoyne.com
Blog: http://connorcoyne.com/blog
Newsletter: https://connorcoyne.substack.com/
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4218298.Connor_Coyne
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He smiled and took a step forward. “Oh, there were. I just hid them well."
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From @LethePress, HOLLYWOOD is a new American myth for readers who enjoy a bit of madness in their weird fiction.
Praised by the Independent Book Review as “An affecting coming of age story that explores change and its impact on the sense of self.”
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"The first time I killed a man was on Tuesday.
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A living darkness seized her, wrapping itself around her body like a great serpent, constricting her breath and slamming down on her insubordination. She crumpled to her knees and when she looked up, she found herself directly in front of the gargantuan body, though a moment ago she’d been yards away from it.
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"I didn’t know how much time I had, but I felt as I did decades ago, running in the woods with a monster on my heels."
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This was what they worshipped: their own annihilation.
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Book Spotlight ~ Mamacadabra by Carrie Monroe O’Keefe ~ @cmonroeokeefe ~ Nonfiction / Memoir / Parenting / Blended Family / Stepparent
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January 25, 2024
A Bewitching Thursday
“Huzza!” Toasting a New Nation, 1760-1815 by Timothy Symington ~ #Nonfiction #History @ToastFab4
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Poof! You’re a mom now!
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"I belonged here, in the dark and the forest and reeking of sticky death."
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This was what they worshipped: their own annihilation.
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January 24, 2024
A Bewitching Wednesday
“Huzza!” Toasting a New Nation, 1760-1815 by Timothy Symington #History #RevolutionaryWar #AmericanRevolution #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3OfuTzt
Juggling Writing and Kids with Carrie Monroe O’Keefe #Memoir #BlendedFamily #StepParent #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3SsAQeL
"Answer me. Answer me, or I'll drop you here and bury you beneath the floorboards.”
My voice was a growl. I wasn't sure if I was bluffing or not.
Excerpt from The Hunter's Daughter by Nicola Solvinic from Berkley Publishing Group. Now available for pre-order: https://bit.ly/3YDcQHB
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Mamacadabra by Carrie Monroe O’Keefe
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This was what they worshipped: their own annihilation.
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If you are fascinated by #AmericanHistory, especially the #RevolutionaryWar era, this book is for you. Drinking toasts to the American Revolution and beyond!
“Huzza!” Toasting a New Nation, 1760-1815 by Timothy Symington @ToastFab4
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