Viola Loves in the Land of Terror
1895 - 1921

• Women gain voting rights; fair elections threaten Klan leaders. 
• Popular young Viola Parr's gotta get a job. 
• She and her employer have sex. 
• A bizarre, illegal abortion kills Viola. 
• The killers insist homicide against women be decriminalized.
• The Klan plots terror against women as sex criminals.
• Viola's dying words detour the terror.

• Lena Anthony's the daughter of the primitive preaching, singing blacksmith, Cicero. 
• Lena secretly weds Frank Parr under the glow of Halley’s Comet. 
• Lena leaves her husband and the white supremacy of Athens, GA for Vaudeville.
• Of America's initial generation of blues singers, Lena tours with one of the USA's first American-Afro/Euro enterprises. 
• Lena ascends into a hurricane, returning to Athens as a force of Nature, relieving drought upon her native land.

• The Civil War impoverishes Athens, Georgia, except for industrialists. 
• Their young followers require joyous motivation.  
• The Haughey Family arrives from the Wild West with jewelry and dance music. 
• They train and deploy musicians with enchanting effect.
• All Euro-American Athenians dance and march toward global disaster.
• Forcing their music monopoly upon a new generation, the Haugheys are abandoned.

• Hal's in love with Winterville, when Lena's a little girl. 
• Winterville is the best and worst: lucid dreams and venomous alienation. 
• A martyr for his Love, Hal's eaten alive by Fire Ants.
• The Stain of Hal's blood remains today, tacked under a Persian carpet.
• Where Winterville is, people have always lived.
• One day, Fire Ants arrived, swarming and biting.
• Destroying them would destroy all of Nature.

• At the dawn of the 19th century, the Newtons and their Cherokee neighbors integrate. 
• Governments lead everyone down The Trail of Tears.  
• At the dawn of the 21st century, the Plastrics work for Europe without borders. 
• Industries lead citizens into poverty.
• Plutocrats consolidate power.

• The Sisson sisters create an improbably successful hat business from the ashes of Civil War.   
• Howard, Evie, Herman, and Louise buoy themselves with romance, arts, technology and nourishment for neighbors.
• They overcome their world of ignorant mills and organized violence. 

• Jai's invited into the former home of Viola’s family doctor, A.C. Holliday, by its present owner. 
• For her church's holiday season, she commissions Jai to illustrate a poem, composed by Paul Claudel.  
• Unknown to her, Claudel had committed a terrible crime against his own sister. 
• As Jai draws, the poem unveils a shining path of economies exposing insurrection.

• Mrs. and Mr. Plastric receive signs that something terrible and unknown is about to happen across the planet.   
• They must relocate to their children, who live impossibly far away. 
• They study their old farmhouse's history for clues of what to do. 
• Finding hidden treasure, it points them to brilliant individuals.
• On the leap year anniversary of Viola’s death, the very day the 21st century's disaster arrived, the old conjurers escape.