Pandora 2012: Southern Belles

The Crescent Beach Mall changed overnight from a typical shopping center to a magical vortex. Visitors flock to South Carolina to live out their fantasies only to be driven mad. Sheriff Valerie Dunn is the only one keeping tabs on the riffraff, until her life becomes steeped in the tragic results of a drunken fit of rage. State Inspector Virginia Eldridge seems to relish harassing the guides at Pandora Tours, but she?s biding her time around the Box, which she suspects is riddled with secrets-the one kept from her and the ones she hides from herself. Dina Watson is a former hooker who is earning her place at Pandora Tours. She swings back and forth between reckless audacity and doubting she's worth the fat and gristle she was born with. Welcome to Crescent Beach, where the sounds of tree frogs singing in the swamp competes with the screams echoing through the cursed mall.

About the Author

Mr. Borodin drafts his stories longhand.  He prefers to glare menacingly at lined paper as opposed to a computer screen.  He also prefers leather belts to suspenders.He has written several stage plays, including Play Rough.  He cried when he first picked up the pen because he was unsure if the writer's life was right for him.  He decided it was and is dealing with the aftermath now.One December night he woke, pale and unkempt and moonstruck from a vivid dream about the mall near his home in South Carolina.  It could have been a scene surgically removed from Pandora, except for its happy ending.  He dressed, folded his short sleeves in neat cuffs under his biceps, and cracked open a virgin composition book.  Six months later, Pandora 2011: Accounts of the Cursed Shopping Center was ready for publication.Mr. Borodin is also an actor and a dialect teacher, so he spends a lot of time in California.  His website is IvanBorodin.com.

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