Chateaugay
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Pine‑Shadow Rendezvous & Diamond Doubt
“Smooth ride, brother?” he asks voice a straight‑razor lullaby while his boys fan out shadow to shadow guns zipped tight in wool sleeves
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Black Feathers on the Wind: What Waits For Ye Beneath Figure Eight Pond
From Indian Point to Figure Eight, grotesque echoes yodel in North Country dialect—snot sprays, songs croak, and the Stalker listens beneath barked laughter.
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Victorian Horror? More Like Steamboat Pirate Hilarity! Steamboat Players’ 1910 Chateaugay Mayhem Fest!
Mad Science, Madder Pirates: Jekyll’s potion, devil’s deals, Frankenstein’s flubs! Steamboat Players’ “tragedy” is a riot of rum and ruins.
#CabbagePatchMonsterMayhem, #DevilWithAPintSoul, #DrunkenTarFrankenstein, #ElixirOfPirateMadness, #HighlandHillsOfAbsurdity, #SteamboatPirateChaos, #VilePotionAndRumTales, Cantwell Hall, Chateaugay, Chateaugay Lake, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908), Hickey’s Dramagraph Stock Company, Le Manoir du Diable (1896), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1910)
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Eggshell Lies and Borderline Whiskey
Boots on slush, Cadillac hums—whiskey ghosts roll, roads slip, hooves whisper secrets. Ain’t no stool-pigeon, just horses tellin’ truths ‘neath the thaw.
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Farmhouse Phoebe and the Seltzer Saints
Farmhouse Phoebe meets the enigmatic Seltzer Saints, vagabond prophets by the Chateaugay River, who foresee her power to flood the world with nectar—or doom it to thirst.
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Farmhouse Phoebe
her lashes kept bleached white with honeyuh baby the lucid tentacles got ta squirminmeaty white fists wrap buzzing nectar bromaand tarnished speckled thoughts wanna open my tap horsey in syrup neon spanish fringelimp species buzzing carbon humming dark or lightremember my china gate well i used to go to schooland spend some interesting hours in…
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Bootlegger’s Paradise
One would be remiss if, in recording a history of the birth and growth of a town, one would neglect a particularly colorful segment of its glorious past. And, while such a tale may disappoint us, this is nonetheless a tale as much about the early stages of gentrification and urban renewal as it is about…
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