Body Grow Cold

In Timothy Quinn's Body Grow Cold, a handful of coal miners turned drug dealers dissembles into savagery and despair when a power failure leaves them trapped 1,000 feet underground in an abandoned shaft mine.

The dialogue-only 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.

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