Erosion
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Creator: Lon S. Cohen
Single-voiced Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Book
Synopsis:
In this podiobook: Canyon Park is bowed down under a relentless torrent of rain. The fields are flooded, the bridges crumble and the increasingly isolated town is host to a serial killer with a grudge against the wealthy Lollo family. Slipping between a small cast of characters; the killer, the tortured policeman hiding a dark secret, the returning son, the inquisitive librarian, the boy caught between cultures.... each of these marred, struggling humans a part of the threadbare fabric of the town. Throughout the story, secrets and motivations are slowly revealed, people continue to die, and it continues to rain. - Emily from POD PeopleThe story is about a Native American, driven to madness by his experience growing up in the small upstate New York town of Canyon Park being discriminated, molested and ostracized. In his mind, various characters of his tribe's mythology and American popular culture vie for his soul. He terrorizes the residents of Canyon Park, murdering those he judges guilty, to punish them for their crimes against him and his ancestors. Strangely, since the killing spree began, there has been a deluge of constant rain adding to the dismal mood and hampering efforts to stop him while the resident also battle nature's fury. Under these conditions, various characters gather from places as close as the local library, to as far away as New York City, to absolve their sins and stop their beloved town from being eroded away.All the characters are eventually stripped bare in this trying time and face their naked souls, their dark inner parts that they are afraid to see and their true selves. America's national guilt over the destruction of the Native American culture is weaved through the motivation of the characters as they struggle with the consequences of acts they committed in the past or the acts of their kin.The Indian Boarding Schools and the Mythology of Iroquois Creation Myth were thoroughly researched and are based on fact though the setting and characters are all fictional. Erosion by Lon S. Cohen is available in paperback from Lulu.com.Thanks Tom Cote for his version of Amazing Grace in my last chapter. Check out his music here.
Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Serial
Voices: Single
Genres: Thriller and Psychological
Completion status: Finished
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Episodes:
Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:56:25 +0000
-In this episode: The final confrontation as the heroes travel to Gary's farm.
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Gary runs home and leaves behind his last vestige of sanity and redemption.
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Grandfather takes Marc and Francine to the reservation for a strange encounter with Oneida mythology.
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Marc and Francine learn the dark secret about Marc's grandfather and begin putting together the pieces of the puzzle.
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Carlton confronts Gary.
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Gary Connors runs away while the voices argue on about how to proceed.
Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In this chapter, Marc Lollo finds himself in a precarious predicament while pitching in to help Jerry and Carlton with the local residents.
Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Carl comes home to find his wife and her prayer group. They pray about the rain and then Carl and Joyce talk, ending the first day in Canyon Park. It's all downhill from here...
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Gary has a dream about Oprah.
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In this chapter, Francine and Marc talk intimately in the library.
Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In this chapter, Carlton runs into John, the Oneida youth, in his police station. Upon questioning John, Carlton gets the idea that things may not be all that they seem. Jerry pops into the office acting his usual obnoxious self when suddenly officer
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Marc gets into a little car trouble but luckily he runs into his old flame from high school, Francine Miller.
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: John, a young Oneida man caught between cultures, comes into contact with the worst of Canyon Park. At home on the reservation, his grandfather, a member of the ruling council of his clan, tells him that they must bridge the distance between Whites a
Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Ralph, the local mortician finds out some interesting news about the killer and he implores his friend Detective Carlton to dig back into his past to link the serial killings to a dark event from when Carlton first came onto the police force thirty y
Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Marc Lollo comes to town for the reading of his Aunt's will. He finds that his Aunt's death was not as natural as he was told and that his home town is not the same as it used to be.
Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In this chapter Francine Miller is told that her old boyfriend, Marc Lollo is back in town. She is the librarian of Canyon park and as she goes to open up the library Detective Carlton Williams is waiting for her with some grim news about Ann Lollo,
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In this chapter we are introduced to Gary Connors, an Oneida who has been victimized by the system that was in place in Canyon Park during his youth. Gary has been hearing some strange things in his head lately.
Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In this chapter we are introduced to the first of the characters whose point of view the story and the events are revealed. Carlton Williams is having lunch at the local diner with some of his companions on the police investigation team as they discu
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: In the prologue we are introduced to the killer and his first victim along with some of the voices he carries in his head.