Small Town Glory

By Eli Godbolt

Eli wakes every morning and sees stories. He can’t help it.

Eli is just an 18-year-old with tree-bark eyes who is trying to make sense of a few things: a sister who cries herself to sleep most every night because of past abuse, a father who drinks until he cannot see straight, and a mother who has a strong spirit but a frail body. But when he witnesses the Millbury police pull the bloated body of a classmate from the Brandywine river, Eli changes. Gets spooked. He takes a video camera and begins to interview the people in his small town that have been close to death.

This is how Eli becomes a storyteller. The stories that he films and pens down in a leather-bound journal claw close to his heart. The stories speak to him in the black of night and force Eli to come to grips with harrowing truths about the nature of life in a small town.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eli Godbolt
• Release date: Jul 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476340272

Eli Godbolt

I am not just a writer. I am a father. Three gorgeous children - and so I am blessed. I have been a writer since I can remember. Short stories mostly, but every now and then a longer piece would leak out onto the page. I love the thrill of losing yourself in a piece of writing - where it swallows you whole and its world is your world and you breathe in the air of somewhere foreign. I am thirty-two and live in Washington state. I love a good story, close friends, and the beauty of words.

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