The Blast

A desolate coal region becomes the ripe breeding ground for catastrophe. The year is 2019 in the small town of Mahanoy City where drugs are king and morals left town decades ago. The McGrath clan, a group of five siblings with long, poisonous roots in the community, begin an enterprise based on the manufacture of methamphetamine. But this isn’t your everyday grade of drug. Jim McGrath, a genius despite his family’s poor and ignorant reputation, concocts a very special compound of meth called Super Tina. Everyone wants some of this enhanced uber drug and they’ll come from across the globe to get it. Thing is, can it be too good to be true? Enter Greater Mahanoy City; year 2023. It’s been 4 years since The Blast occurred that wiped out the entire Northeast Pennsylvania coal region. The whole 170 square miles have been rebuilt by government efforts and the city has become a utopia of sorts. Greater Mahanoy City now competes in the world of fashion, innovation, and movie production with the likes of New York, Tokyo, Milan, and Paris. Life is wonderful here until one day in August changes everything. Secrets of the past, decrepit town and its descent into drugs resurface with a vengeance not imagined by anyone. It all starts with a starving, naked vagrant who appears near the town dump. Just what is the new, beautiful, former coal region hiding that plunges this brightly lit world into a dark hell where man becomes food and suffering is on the menu?

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