Dirt Creek
Hayley Scrivenor, Sophie Loughran (Narrator)
Set downunder in a dirt poor dying town. This is a mystery involving the disappearance of a 12-yr-old schoolgirl. The story has no happy endings. It begins in medias res and then backs up to give background on the various people who knew the child, her friends, neighbours, and townspeople. All this detail becomes tedious after a while.
After all those pages the author writes an acknowledgement that drags on and on and on as well. The one thing that all those workshops and writer in residencies didn't teach her was brevity. Never have figured out what interest the reader has in all that. Sort of like the closing credits of a Hollywood movie that run on and on to background music proving why it costs so many millions to make a feature picture.
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