Twenty-two people turned out to hear the “three coast” triple feature at Monday’s post-Midwest Literary Festival Twilight Tales show.

Longtime Twilight Tales mailing list regular, Kim Richards, traveled from California to read a tale about an Avon-type saleswoman who discovers that while beauty may only be skin deep, vanity transcends the grave.

Moving eastward, Chicago, the Third Coast, was ably represented by Charlie Brown, and “The Science of Manny Madonaldo”, which told the bittersweet, funny story of how a young man, orphaned by the state penal system and sexually frustrated by a chaste girlfriend (promiscous with others), is lured into a life of porn.

Traveling from NYC, David Thomas Lord read from his second vampire novel, Bound in Flesh, and added a bonus Celtic revenge story of a young boy and his cold-hearted grampa, “Da’s Boy”.

A music jam followed the the readings.

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