Setting: Southeast Georgia

Characters: June Bug Candy Miss Ada Mama

An imposing presence is a novel about the making of a movie in South East Georgia the filming social impact on a rural community is An Imposing Presence is not only imposing as in awe inspiring but also an imposition. Lives, in general are altered, some permanently, particularly the major character Candy and June Bug Booie.

Of course my characters are primarily illiterate, basically, ignorant, and Candy possesses a combined quality of comedy an pathos which lends to a humorous and pathetic attempt at stardom as an extra on the set. She is a creature of extreme vanity at transitional age of thirty; she a lackadaisical, ner-do-well with an uncanny knack for making her life unbearable. However, she with a history of insecurity from being deracinated from foster home to foster home, clings to June Bug, relies upon him, despite his beatings and cruel rituals at Dead River where she is forced to endure repeated ritualistic episodes of snake observing which is one of her many phobias. She is a plebeian with a penchant for presages, a monomania for the bright lights and the spectacular in contrast to the dun drabness of her present existence.

He is ruthless and maniacal, a coon trapper, a bigot-typical and as Candy says, "he never buys gas." The narrator implies that he is a thief by profession, but his means of livelihood are left to the imagination. And their sociological, psychological, and physiological makeup's to show the "how's" and "why's" of their behaviors.

Number of Pages:354