3 stories
Short Stories
By Danny Wayne Cotton
Southern crime fiction and a book-length Kentucky story cycle. Each one is readable here in full, transcribed from Danny’s original typed pages, with the scanned manuscript available to download.
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Salvation, Part 1
A hit man for a man called Boss walks out of confession, into a Mobile bar and toward a job he already knows is wrong. Hard-boiled Southern crime told in first person.
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Salvation, Part 2
The second half. He goes looking for Boss, finds no black Mercedes in the lot, and understands exactly what that means.
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The Tangled Tales of Prichard County
Poortown Pool Hall
Danny’s longest work: a novel-length cycle of linked stories set around the Poortown Pool Hall in fictional Prichard County, Kentucky, narrated largely by a country lawyer named Rhett Sparrow.