In tow is a young girl of questionable parentage. That someone turns out to be a new couple in town who have rented a room from the beauty parlor worker who have also identified a man wanted on four counts of rape as the “Petrified Man” from a traveling sideshow carnival.Īn unreliable young woman’s first person account of the 4th of July when a sister she constantly complains is the family’s favorite returns home after running away with the man the narrator says she stole from her. She is led to a room shared by two old women residents in what turns into a nightmarish encounter from which the young girls runs screaming.Ī conversation between beauty parlor worker and her customer erupts into a social firestorm when the worker accidentally mentions that someone has identified her customer as being pregnant. In the 1930’s, a teenage girl visits a nursing home in order to earn Campfire Girl points for acts of charity. Ruby Fisher had the misfortune to be shot in the leg by her husband this week.” Ignorance and backwoods superstition cause her to become frightened and confused.
We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Ī semi-literate, uneducated and isolated wife named Ruby Fisher manages to work out the words in a newspaper: “Mrs.
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