FELLA - Chapter 1 of 30
The Abbey
Sing, you scavengers, of those who persist.
Sustenant on the dead, bandy your tales which make time walk with new sinew plucked from that glorious carcass. It lies locked behind the gates to Paradise, progress in exile, God’s greatest irony: A garden bearing fruit only for carrion birds.
Call the Holy Spirit not a dove, but a buzzard.
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Our story begins in North Dakota soon after the Civil War has wrung the United States out to nearly her last drop. An unremarkable child cries alone in the night, and the only constant in this nation is change.
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FELLA is a genre-crossing Western about the nature of goodness in America and the miracle of storytelling. Join me here every other Monday for a new chapter of our girl Tate’s twisting fate unfolding.
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I love the first chapter! Looking forward to the next!