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Timothy Quinn's "Body Grow Cold" is a dialogue-only novella about responsibility and failure among a group of
coal miners turned small-time drug dealers in a small southern Illinois town. A shooting lures eight men and two
women into an abandoned shaft mine where they dissemble into savagery and despair when a power failure leaves
them trapped 1,000 feet underground.
The novella is loosely influenced by the Herrin massacre of 1922 in Williamson County,
Illinois, during which twenty-two mine workers were killed in a rampage following the re-opening of a unionized
mine by the Southern Illinois Coal Company.
"Body Grow Cold" was published in paperback by
Frog Eat Frog in 2006. The
complete book is available here online under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5
license, which entitles readers to copy, distribute and display the work in electronic form for exclusively
noncommerical purposes, providing suitable attribution is provided.
For further information, please contact the author directly.
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