Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Downfall, part two.

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.

Let’s do the intro.

Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents. His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.

Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of his legendary father, Marshal Charlie Grim. His father’s name was built in ink, in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, reported by a writer named Sterling Stern. They were the hero and his troubadour.

Years after Charlie’s death, Hollow encounters the role that his father’s biographer played in crafting his legend, and how he continues to profit from it. He resolves that ending is going to have to be written not worthy of print.

The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.

Enjoy

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Let’s do the intro.

Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents. His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.

Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of his legendary father, Marshal Charlie Grim. His father’s name was built in ink, in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, reported by a writer named Sterling Stern. They were the hero and his troubadour.

As time passes and the story grows, tension grows between them as Charlie questions the value and veracity of celebrity. A young Hollow questions: is it the hero who makes the story or the story that makes the hero?

The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready to face the bad guy.

Let’s do the intro.

Todd needs Eric’s help. A disgruntled worker at an office building downtown has taken his coworkers hostage, and has a bomb set explode. Todd doesn’t have time to negotiate or space to rush the scene. He knows that Eric is his best and only chance.

The encounter Eric enters will reset the trajectory of Eric’s public life. A door is going to be open for him that is awfully difficult to close.

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