2022, DIRTY WORKS

Drunken farmers. Vicious, drug-addicted majorettes. Silent black men with homicidal instincts. A former football player who could have reached the top. A trailer park. A sheriff with a wooden leg, a souvenir from his time in Vietnam, who uses the jail as a makeshift holding cell. A deputy who is constantly overwhelmed. A knife. Illegal dog fights. Coach Tump and his boys. A girl glued to the TV. Plenty of moonshine, lots of beer, and the occasional stolen bottle of good whiskey. A snake preacher. James Brown on the jukebox. Merle Haggard songs. A lawyer who can only have sex while thinking of Treblinka. Crying babies. A philosophy student who reads science fiction novels (and who, by necessity, must be an idiot). A bunch of long-haired hippies. Traveling salesmen. People from all over the country (last year, two came from Canada and five from Texas). The Miss Rattlesnake pageant.