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Book Excerpt: The Rainbow Rim
…Ink stopped at a place called Parasawampitts, one of the Vista Points along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, so they could camp for the night. She asked him what it meant, Parasawampitts.
He shrugged. “How the hell should I know?”
Patsy felt dragged along with each yellow dash on the road since they left Shiprock. She was sober now, but still precarious.
“Ink, I think I wanna be alone for a while,” she said, almost as if now were the time of her confinement to end. And he seemed to know, nodded just once.
The Rainbow Rim: What’s It All About?
ichael Just writes book-length fiction and nonfiction as well as short fiction. His other novels, The Dirt, The Crippy and The Mind Altar can be found through Amazon, and his website. His short stories are available in print and online.
The Rainbow Rim: Book Description
A former attorney, psychotherapist, actor, and lecturer, Michael Just writes book-length and short fiction and nonfiction. A former Chicago native, he makes his home in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest. His work can be found on Substack, at https://justmikejust.com, https://justnonfiction.com and https://canyoncallsthebook.com and is available directly through Amazon.
The Rainbow Rim: Interview with the Author
The Rainbow Rim started out as a screenplay with a male lead. Over a long period of time, I began to use the screenplay as a rather involved outline. The male hero became a woman, Patsy Pringle. I have experience working with the severely mentally ill and the mentally impaired. Martin, Patsy’s son, is more or less sentenced into an IMD – and Institute for the Mentally Disabled. He has some intellectual deficits but is high functioning. I’ve worked with people from the streets and set some of my own experiences into this story. I’ve always been interested in the themes of forgiveness and redemption. Shake it all up and you’ve got a road story, an adventure, a portrayal of small-town America 30 years ago, and a portrait of the prurience of big city street life.
The Rainbow Rim – An Introduction
The Rainbow Rim is as an 87,000-word work of mainstream contemporary fiction that follows the story of Patsy Pringle, a fallen woman of insatiable appetite and immense talent. Employing a highly visual, cinematic style, this 85-chapter novel portrays a woman of indescribable beauty and inner strength struggling to overcome her past as a prostitute so she can redeem herself by mothering the mentally challenged son she was forced to give up 18 years before.
The Rainbow Rim – Publicity Release
Michael Just writes fiction as well as nonfiction. Several of his novels, a short story collection, several short stories and dozens of his essays have been published in print and online. He has received awards for his writing and it has appeared in major metropolitan newspapers. His writing is informed by experience as an attorney, lecturer, actor, adjunct professor, and psychotherapist. He makes his home in the American Southwest.
The Rainbow Rim Now Out
This mainstream-contemporary coming-of-age story with elements of adventure is also a road story that moves quickly and keeps you on the edge. Patsy Pringle is an ex-prostitute and addict who’s trying to make amends to the son she abandoned 18 years before. Forced to give up her son to the man who got her pregnant, the Reverend Walter Tallman, she takes on much more than she bargained for when she learns that the son she’s broken out of an institution wants to do her in for ruining his life.
Coming Soon – The Rainbow Rim
The Rainbow Rim, a road adventure novel, will be out soon. This story follows Patsy Pringle, an aging, one-time prostitute who can still turn heads, as she returns to the small, Illinois town where she was forced to give up her baby when she was just 16. She comes back to make amends to her son 18 years later, but ends up kidnapping him from a life wasted in an institution. They’re hunted by the boy’s father, a minister, who has an arrest warrant in one pocket and his brother, the town Sheriff, in the other.
Her son, Martin, has led a sheltered life, well-versed in the Bible, at least the verses that promise an eye for an eye. Left mentally impaired by Patsy’s overdose during her pregnancy after his father wanted Patsy to have an abortion, Martin promises Patsy that he wants to do his mother in once he finds her. Will he really carry through? Patsy doesn’t know but must conceal her real identity until she can convince her son that a fallen woman like herself – a harlot in Martin’s eyes – could possibly be the mother that he wants, and that he really needs.
Take a ride on the back of Patsy’s Harley from heartland prairie to L.A.’s skid row in this coming-of-age novel where a sheltered young man must discover what life’s really like beyond the sheltered limits of his small town.
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Canyon Calls
Canyon Calls represents a first of its kind – a collection of short stories about the people who travel to, live, work and sometimes even maroon themselves in the Grand Canyon.
The Dirt
A new title, The Dirt, now available from Giddings Street Press! Set in the Four Corner region of the American Southwest, this novel is a departure for me. Most of what I write is science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, mystery and horror. With The Dirt, I’ve chosen to explore mysticism. Is it even real?
The Crippy
Mitch Cantsee is always on the run – from the law, from paying his child support. Yet now, this fugitive drug dealer of half-Navajo, half-Anglo blood is up against something he can’t really run from. And he has to roll differently this time, because he has a little girl, Sam, in tow, whose mother pawned her off for a corner bag of dope.
The Mind Altar
A top secret expedition of society’s expendables ventures down into a supermax prison built deep under a desert mountain. The seven members of the expedition must solve the mystery of what made staff and inmates, which include the world’s most dangerous psychopaths, turn murderously on each other.