Posted on Jan 16, 2008
Here's a piece of the making of "Looking For a New Way", a selection from the upcoming release PAWNSHOP. Along with this video comes a snippet from the PAWNSHOP's journey through rural Georgia circa 1940s and an illustration to accompany it. Listen, read, enjoy.
They traveled a ways, spooked by the blasts from the truck's own
tailpipe, without anything or anyone getting in their way. Then a
clothesline strung up with aprons and shapeless, flower-print dresses
leapt up in front of the windshield. Pawnshop slammed the brake pedal
to the floor. They crashed through a flower bed and into the side of a
clapboard house.
The Reverend got out and headed down the road in a half-jog, half-
limp, his left fist pumping and right hand keeping a tense grip on the
gun. Pawnshop found himself looking through a now-broken window at a
painting of a dark-skinned, fire-eyed Moses. He could feel that his
bones and sinews were all in their rightful places, but he still
couldn't move. Moses had a terrible knowledge in his eyes and a
crooked staff in his hand.

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