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This is the grand finale, the final episode of CUT by Erin O'Riordan and Tit Elingtin. 
Our next book will be BELTANE. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
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In the second-to-last episode of CUT, we find out the fate of Eva and Kurt. Pastor Edward, preparing for his wife's funeral, has more to say to Athena about Greek mythology. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
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We're back! 
Travis and Darius spend some much-needed "guy time" together over a cheeseburger.  When Darius takes off, Travis seeks some calm and bumps into Leander. Meanwhile, the Pastor has to have an awkward conversation with Barbara Jean's hospital chaplain. 
Only 1 episode to go before the end!
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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"...God and the Devil were married." Athena spins her wildly unorthodox theology to the Pastor as he prepares for the next Sunday's sermon. But something is terribly wrong with Barbara Jean. Then, Travis and Monica struggle in the aftermath of their tragedy. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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As Chapter 20 ends, Diana has to have a serious talk with Brigid. Chapter 21 brings us up to Thanksgiving 1999. Travis and Monica want to spend a restful holiday with her parents, but their baby may not be able to wait.
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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https://www.createspace.com/5665905
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** Adults Only. ** In this episode, Diana wants Tim to spend the night with her, but Brigid interrupts their tryst with a crisis of her own making. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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Brigid and Fred share a romantic moment when Fred attempts to climb in through Brigid's bedroom window. A new challenge comes between them, though. Diana and Tim go on their third date. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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In Episode 11, the Halloween bonfire comes to a close. Tim and Diana's date is interrupted when he runs into his former partner, and she learns some surprising new stories about him. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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Episode 10 brings us to the story of Tim's police-involved shooting. I wrote this episode, and even I find it upsetting. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
Buy Links:
https://www.createspace.com/5665905
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/575247
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/162355021648
Episode 9 presents a historical flashback in the tale of Brigid and Diana's ancestor, An. Born in a small Chinese farming village around 1880, An was tricked into leaving her home as a teenager, and ended her life in the notorious role of pirate.
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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https://www.createspace.com/5665905
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/575247
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/162355021648
Barbara Jean confronts Edward about the rumors she's heard about him as the congregation prepares to protest the annual Halloween bonfire. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/162355021648
Episode 7 opens with an intimate encounter between Fred and Brigid. Darius prepares to work security at the Halloween bonfire, and Barbara Jean reconsiders her future with Edward.
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
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In Episode 6, Brigid waits for Fred while Fred goes to church and makes confession. Maybe it isn't a good idea for Leander and Brigid to be home alone together. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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Story Time is back! In the fifth episode from 'Cut' by Erin O'Riordan and Tit Elingtin, Leander takes Fred to meet his connection...in a coven of Satanists in the middle of performing a ritual.
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
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Happy New Year! While I continue to recover from a sinus infection that turned into a middle ear infection, please enjoy these literary fun facts I previously recorded. 
Sources/For Further Reading:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=138
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/history.cfm
http://classprojects.kenyon.edu/engl/exeter/Kenyon%20Web%20Site/Chris/Learning%20to%20Write.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2116257/Why-Mick-Jagger-forgive-Keith-Richards-personal-little-insult-biography.html
http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/index.php/research/twains-life-and-works
http://www.greatsite.com/ancient-rare-bible-leaves/eliot-1663-leaf.html
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/const-errors.html
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-outlawlist-b.html
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc3.htm
http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/04-12-12-12-49-talking-to-professional-pencil-sharpener-david-rees-on-his-new-handbook-his-upcoming-visit-to-book-people-and-the/
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/7-interesting-facts-about-the-potato/923?image=7
http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/ozites/oz0067.htm
http://catholicism.org/ben-hur-and-billy-the-kid.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1461377/ Fictitious-author-publishes-the-first-book-without-verbs.html
Episode 4 finishes us up where we left off in Chapter 5, with Edward and Brigid. Then we follow Brigid home, where she has a confrontation with her mother, Jessamine. In Chapter 7, we meet Brigid's older sister Diana and her potential love interest, Tim Kawaguchi, the police officer-turned-yoga-instructor. (Stick around to find out what's up with that.) 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Note: This episode's going to get a little sexy, so don't listen if you'll be offended by adult content. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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In this episode, we finish Chapter 2 of CUT by Erin O'Riordan and Tit Elingtin, then read all of Chapter 3. 
Book Description: Love pulp fiction? Just try putting down CUT. CUT is full of saints and sinners you'll love to hate. Brigid is a high school basketball player and secret heroin addict. Fred, a Catholic lesbian, loves Brigid, but doesn't know about her affair with Edward, a married Evangelical preacher. Sex, ethics, religions, and mythologies clash as you dig deeper into their connection to the death of a young couple.
Add it to your Goodreads shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26251118-cut
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/575247
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Hi, I'm Erin O'Riordan, and today I'm going to read you the first episode of CUT by me and Tit Elingtin. CUT is a crime story in the style of PULP FICTION by Quentin Tarantino or CRASH by Paul Haggis. I'm going to read 2 to 3 episodes a week, so make sure you're a subscriber and don't miss an episode.






















