WRITING BLOG- Casey Smith

 Now We've gotten to the good stuff!! Panic has taken over in Chester's Hill! The police chief is dead and the city counselors are sitting back  watching their town collapse into frenzy!  Big Jim Rennie basically decided, "Hey, I might as well see what I can get from this madness" by hiring his abusive S.O.B of a son Junior Rennie. We first meet Junior when he's beating Angie senselessly while she suffers from a seizure. Junior suffers from piercing migraines and obvious psychosis and well.... he's the definition of a 'Grade A D-Bag'.  Stephen King paints a tragically dark storyline through Junior. When Junior enters the novel, he is strangling and beating a girl named Angie who appears to be in absolute terror. After repeated blows to the head from Junior, Angie began having convulsions and going into epileptic shock. Junior screamed at her to "Cut it Out" before ultimately strangling her to death and blaming her for his life events. Junior ...

As we are introduced to the multitude of parallel story lines throughout this magnificent Stephen King novel, his word imagery paints masterpieces. Yeah.... No duh! We all know Stephen King is a great writer for an abundance of features, but here is what makes Under the Dome so special. Picture a small town society.... where on one side a sign reads "Welcome to Chester's Hill" and on the other "We Hope You Come Back Very Soon"      When we meet our characters, life is as usual. After a dispute with Big Jim Rennie, army captain Dale 'Barbie' Barbara begins to leave town when a giant non-permeable dome appears around the city limits. Barbie immediately turns back and heads back into town in attempt to make sense of the commotion.  From Pacemaker explosions to town corruption during a crisis, this is packed full of dark and twisted Stephen King imagery!!!! I can't wait to keep listening......