Deep Mud

<p><strong><em>In the early 70s the past sins of one man led to the punishment of an entire town bringing murder passion unrequited love and a connection to the strangest chain of events imaginable.</em></strong></p><p>Atascadero (Spanish for<em> Deep Mud</em>) in the early 70s boasts a drive-in theater and a Burger Queen where teens gather on Saturday nights. Lovers head up to Lake Success and gas is $0.32 a gallon at the Shell station-the one with the 'S' knocked out by vandals. Nothing ever happens in Deep Mud until someone straps Mayor Suggs to a skyrocket during the Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza and he explodes all over the townsfolk.</p><p>Soon after a popular family physician resurrects his dead wife daughter and several others with mixed results. A failed high school baseball pitcher is gifted with a 95 MPH fastball by the spirit of a murdered child someone has freed the animals from Chaffey Zoo-including a Bengal tiger-and a stalker is going around in a 'Tricky Dicky' mask attacking people with a pair of pliers.</p><p>Only Ricardo Meneses teenage son of Mexican immigrants can save Deep Mud. He possesses the 'cursed jewel' which he must return to the grave.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong> a compelling literary/magical realism tale loaded with characters you'll never forget<strong>.</strong></p>