




""The Lonesome Quarter"" by Richard Wormser is a novel set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The story revolves around a small town in the American Midwest called Lonesome Quarter. The town is struggling to survive as the economic downturn has hit it hard. The protagonist...

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Her name was Vera Mae, and she had been around these dusty tank towns too long--working the two-bit rodeos and cozying up to suckers, like this fat tourist in the bar. Oh God, she thought, I can con him and ditch him by nine-thirty, but what then? Sit in a hotel room...