Penelope Rundle

Pulpwood Penelope Rundle

A house on a lake incised in granite are characters in this horror story about life in the wild. Nothing is as it seems in the halcyon Northwest quarter. Pristine water is one of the rarest of rare earths.
A family moves onto their homestead and learns that humans are more trouble than animals. Twolegged predators abound in a novel of intrigue and smoky mirrors.
Three endings offer the reader a choice of outcomes in keeping with reality wherein a slight pivot on the cosmic axis can alter any finale and everyone's consequences.
As global resources are more pressured by human population growth never before seen on our planet, the battle for valuable land and natural wealth escalates. Years of protecting lives and property dispel mythologies of tranquil country living. The forest curtain is drawn over multiple crimes.
Be careful what you wish for when you move to a lake in the woods. Soon you may become part of the wilding.
Beautiful vistas hide the distance between utopia and dystopia. Invoking a pantheon of contemporary women authors as spiritual guides--Margaret Mead, Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Nancy Drew's Carolyn Keene (ghostwriters) to name a few--purees into Pulpwood, a psychological horror novel set on a forested lake.
A family struggles to maintain normalcy against an undercurrent of lust for land and resources, bullying, and human bestiality. We each have our own alternative realities, yet almost everyone smiles for the camera.