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Kate--First, I just subscribed to "Sin Street" this evening. I've seen you referencing it in your different E-Mail alerts, so I wanted to check it out. Congratulations to you and your collaborator, Sissitrix, for an incredibly terrifying, harrowing story! We're definitely not in the realm of Medium-style erotica fare here. This is brilliant, graphic, gloves-off writing. Mickey Spillane to the n-th degree. It's horrifying and enraging. Enraging on a visceral level. You did an incredible job of doing this from Erin's POV--they've tortured, terrorized, and degraded this woman indescribably--one of them her husband? And the drawings by Sissitrix add to the horror--very evocative. I felt her desolation--her abandonment--the poignant reference to a "Harvard MBA"--that her life was definitely not always like this, that it was turned around somewhere, I'm guessing by this bastard Brian, who was such a "catch" that he did this to her. Heartbreaking stuff, Kate--I wanted to do a John Wick on this sorry-assed, depraved bunch and get this girl out of there! But given that you both have launched this as a noir forum (one of my favorite genres, from the old-time hard-boiled stuff of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, to the modern neo-noir stuff--and of course the different film versions--Tarantino and that lot), I've got the feeling that Erin will return, and do some John Wick-ing of her own, and settle accounts for good with her dirtbag, scumball, degenerate gambling bastard husband Brian! Highest marks to you both--keep at it--this is terrific, and terrifying stuff, but well-done, both in narrative and illustration--and unabashedly authentic--happens all over the world, in countless places, unreported.

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