It’s hard being a trans woman. Harder still in North Carolina. Sandy Pogue knows this first-hand. Along with her Cherokee boyfriend Yona Bridger, Sandy manages to eke out a simple but happy life until inevitable circumstances force them to pack up and skip town. What starts as a journey towards a new life together takes a drop into the seedy underbelly of an isolated South, where some of the old ways die hard. As they carve out a new life, Sandy and Yona find themselves in the clutches of a bizarre cult of kidnapped women and demonic children. What is Yona’s connection to this mysterious group of backwoods zealots, and can he help Sandy avoid a fate worse than death? More than just their two lives hang in the balance as they hack a bloody swath through the ancient countryside, trying to reach the safety of the light through the TREE BLACK. In Tree Black, De Bruler introduces the most amazing new heroine to blast onto the horror scene in ages. Swinging her hatchet through the heads of demon-possessed hillbillies, Sandy is a cross between Hedwig and Evil Dead’s Ash Williams. A fully realized and dynamic character instead of a boring clichéd archetype, Sandy strikes blow after brutal blow for outsiders everywhere. Check out Sandy (@poguesandy) and Yona (@yonawelds) on twitter as well as get a glimpse into the larger world behind Tree Black with a blog written by an outsider to the story, Erick Montes (ericktalks.wordpress.com).

Tree Black

Literature & Fiction

Bruler, Connor de

Genre Fiction

Montag Press

These are the short-stories that make up American Platteland, a stylistic tour de force linking the fates of the American South and African apartheid. A classic, magical journey into the surreal.

American Platteland

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Hollow Bible by Connor de Bruler is a first-hand account of the life of Basil Shaver. With his gun stored away inside 
of a hollowed-out King James Bible, he writes his story on a series of yellow legal pads while squatting in a coastal 
motel amid the onset of a category-five hurricane. Fueled by sorrow and desperation, he reflects on being sold into 
sex slavery as a child, his days running drugs along the South Carolina coast for an Eastern-European criminal 
organization, rescuing the love of his life, and his nationwide spree of loanshark robberies.\n“Hollow Bible elevates the lurid subject matter from glamorized shock to real poetry...a thorny vine that grows through a lava field. Violence, drugs, and filth, de Bruler does it better than most.” 
— Paul d Miller, Albrecht Drue, Ghostpuncher\n“Try to look away.” 
— Jesse McKinnell, Anarchy and Other Lies

Hollow Bible

Hell, South Carolina

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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