See How Small/Scott Blackwood

A Book Review:  See How Small/Scott Blackwood

Fiction winner 2016 Pen Center USA Literary Awards

Published by HarperCollins Fourth Estate

 

When I first heard that Scott Blackwood was going to write something based on the unsolved 1991 murders of a group of teenaged girls in Austin, Texas, I thought, oh no, leave it alone.  We’ve all had enough.  Because after that infamous crime, for years, we all saw those girls’ faces on a billboard and on TV, with a message offering a reward for information leading to the killers.  The victims’ faces are with me still.  I was once a teenager in that city.  I had friends who worked at ice cream shops as teenagers.  It could have been us.

A Texas Ranching Adventure: The Spirits of the Field

Texas Ranching Adventure:  The Spirits of the Field

Behind our ranch house and across a dry creek bed was a long rectangular pasture.  There was something strange in that place—it could be felt.