Just A Small Town

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Four young people fight to survive the streets in this gritty novella about those left behind: Compulsive reading. -Mick Finlay author of the Arrowood mysteries</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Industry is in decline. The streets are in decay. Many have gone-while those who remain seek escape in drugs.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alex consumes heroin to forget his abusive father. Jim hides from guilt about the friend he didn't save. Chelsi's brother killed a local boy and ostracism pushes her toward a rival gang prostitution and loneliness. Danny is a hustler but needs protection from the drug gang that supplies him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can any of them endure against the odds in a town that could be anywhere in a world of addiction crime isolation and manipulation?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Debut author Paul Linggood raises challenging questions about a society that has become increasingly violent in this novella of gripping suspense and gut-wrenching realism.</span></p>