The Writer is dead. He is gone and I feel now that I hardly knew him. Who was this person and what secrets did he leave behind? What is going to happen to us now he is gone? Who are we without him? There was such a light in him, where did it all come from? Was it somewhere inside him or did he steal it from us? How am I ever going to be able to go on alone? What happens now?

The train is moving north. You watch as the war-scarred world disappears behind you. Your body is a prison and you will never escape it. The blood on the floor is spreading in a wide red pool. Hate pours from their mouths. You feel as though you are trapped inside the most terrible dream.

This is the story of a small town in America. It is a Gothic literary novel which traces the intersecting narratives of six residents of an Upstate New York trailer park. When one of them stumbles upon a young man's body in the woods, it sets them all down a path leading ever deeper into the grotesque underbelly of their decaying community.