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.

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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?

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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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Eric has spent a life not being injured and aware he was being hurt. He didn’t have the awareness to understand the pain he’d endured could have an affect on the people that care for him. As he shares more of his story with Molly he has to contend with the hurt she feels for him.

As Todd discovers that the motel fire was likely arson, Eric is also forced to confront that his actions draw attention and attention brings consequences.

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The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.

Eric Verrity Rocks

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Eric’s heroic deeds have reintroduced his long estranged foster brother into his life, and while his relationship with Molly deepens, his life of solitude and habit is becoming an increasingly distant memory. At the same time his new doctor is seeking a deeper understanding of his strength and his weaknesses.

After leaving a session with his doctor, Eric encounters a young woman on the bus that appears to need his help. He embarks on a rescue that ends tragically but commands popular media attention in the aftermath focused more on his notoriety than his desire to help.

Heroism invites conflicted scrutiny. Good deeds often come with a consequence.

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The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.

Eric Verrity Rocks

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Eric’s memories of his therapy as a teenager with Doctor Harmon and the parallel lines stringing to his current discussions with Doctor Maynard diverge as young Eric learns Doctor Harmon has terminal cancer and is getting his affairs in order. Arrangements have been made to see Eric securely into financial adulthood. Meanwhile, Dr. Maynard clinical interest in his patient grows into fascination as he continues to probe his heroics pursuits.

On a regular night in his neighborhood, Eric stumbles across a fire at a motel and women trapped in her room. After a harrowing rescue, people crowd around him, converging with a threat he’s never experienced, admiration.

As his relationship with Molly grows, and he eagerly awaits another spaghetti dinner, Eric is dumbfounded to find a face from his past, investigating the headlines featuring his name, standing at his door.

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

The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.

Eric Verrity Rocks

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As his court mandated therapy continues, Eric’s memory counters his new doctor’s interest in his pursuits with that of the child psychiatrist. Shortly after his foster brother Todd’s harrowing football injury, Dr. Harmon begins visits with Eric who has matched his brother in a descent into depression.

Doctor Harmon quickly sees something special in Eric, encouraging him to accept the things that make him different to help him find a purpose.

Reflecting the growing relationship with Dr Maynard, Eric is encouraged to discuss his motives to identify the purpose that makes him so different.

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Following Eric’s brave intervention during an attempted robbery at her corner store, Molly insists on cooking Eric a home cooked meal. Watching her work in his kitchen, Eric recalls his the period of his childhood in the foster home of the Danvers, lead with images of the kind and maternal Mrs. Danvers, and his impressive foster brother Todd.

His memories carry him through the formative period, and the rise and fall of his brotherly bond with Todd, who guided him, protected him and ultimately rejected him.

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The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website. https://patrickhughes.ca/

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