Word: threads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That Game happened in 1968. And on this, its 25th anniversary, it is time once more to piece together the scraps of paper that recount the story, to pour over photographs that capture the moments. In short, it is time unravel that Game's thread and in so doing strengthen its fabric...
...Lasher, Rice picks up the narrative thread left hanging at the end of The Witching Hour. At the end of The Witching Hour, Rice situates the reader in present-day New Orleans after a global jaunt through time tracking the incestuous Mayfair family of witches from their roots in Scotland to the powerful, respected family living in modern day New Orleans. In the opening chapters of Lasher, the heir to the Mayfair throne--Rowan Mayfair--has been spirited away from New Orleans by the demon Lasher. The whole of the novel is then taken up in the relentless pursuit...
Haiti offers the best opportunity. The military leaders in control have little popular support within the country and none outside it; they are hanging on to power by a thread. The new prime minister selected by exiled President Jean-Betrand Aristide is already in Haiti...
...never saw the local spin on this issue in the national press. While scientists were talking of hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...
With more boutiques moving in, there's less reason for students and artists to spend much time here hanging out and frequenting the stores and restaurants which cater to them. Those places are already hanging by an economic thread, and with rich chain stores ready to pay higher rents and bump the small stores out of the Square, they'll soon be gone...