From the Rejection Pile #2
Chapter One from the book that 20+ publishers rejected
Chapter One: Twenty-three days to circle the wagons
Day Zero: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
It was one of those lovely late-summer days in Minnesota that would ease into a pretty tolerable evening: seventy-six degrees, with a light breeze out of the south-southeast. As Katy Perry wrapped up her highly anticipated concert at the X-Cel Energy Center in St. Paul, across the river in Minneapolis, several motorists were calling 911, after unexpectedly encountering the lifeless body of Anousone Phanthavong in the middle of the Riverside Avenue ramp off I-94.
