Pastor Vern, a sequined cape-wearing spiritual leader of unbound theatrics, has calcified his grip on the town’s inhabitants, promising that obedience to his word will bring the rain once again. In 2018, in the fictional town of Peaches, drought has once again devastated the land. They get godshot.Ĭhelsea Bieker’s first novel, Godshot (336 pages Catapult), is the story of that community. So what happens when a once-abundant, isolated agricultural community of roughly 1,000 people is drought-stricken and plagued with massive crop failure and is then approached by a zealous man who promises rain and delivers generously? They trust him. As corporations continue to aggressively resist responsibility, there is more pressure on the individual than ever to do their part. It seems that, in less than a decade, the effects of climate change shifted from feared to felt. Prolonged periods of drought in recent years have resulted in a considerable diminishing of groundwater in the Central Valley of California, and temperatures are expected to rise by five or six degrees Fahrenheit in the region by the end of the century.
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