midwestern setting · rural gothic · conservative · xenophobic · religious tension · small town drama · insular community · moral code · addiction crisis · judgmental
Dust swirls off Main Street as the last light bleeds over miles of corn. The grain silo casts a long shadow across the town square. A farmer in faded denim overalls and a worn cap spits tobacco and stares, his sun-weathered face unreadable. You're now a resident of Clayridge Hollow, Wisconsin. Every face here knows you're new. So what brings you to our little slice of nowhere?