Twistical Tales - Old West History Just Got Horrifying

[close] Welcome to Bisbee, Arizona: where your dreams become nightmares and your nightmares become realities.

TWISTICAL - adjective; Crooked, devious, tortuous, hence perverse, unfair, dishonest. Used in the 19th century, meaning tortuous, unfair, or not quite moral.

He blames his mom. He blames himself. He would blame politics, providence and Pima County if he thought it would help. It's been two years since his parents divorced and fifteen-year-old Ian Cain is trapped in that wretched purgatory of no longer a boy but not quite a man. If puberty and parental divorce weren't enough, Ian's best friend, Mike, is a stoner from a broken home; his girlfriend, Heather, is so wonderful that it only makes him feel inferior and self-conscious; and the school's star quarterback is a bully who hates his guts.

Ian's only reprieve comes when his long lost love for the old west, romantic notions he shelved as childish since the divorce, are rekindled when his mother suggests a family outing at the historic