Trailer Trash Noir

[NOIRTRASH]

I cant find any. Trailer trash melodrama exists but is cartoonish.

I know the life. The life is plenty exciting but low quality, kinda like a slice or two better than a homeless camp beneath a bridge. The challenge for a writer is, there aint much to work with in terms of drama.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings got as close as anyone with her story, THE PARDON. A man goes to prison for murder. After a few years he's pardoned and comes home to his wife and kids and some extra kids. He counts heads and his wife says, I HADDA DO SOMETHING TO KEEP US FED. She refuses to sleep with him and parks him in the bedroom with the new kids. I knew women like the wife.

I recall a couple where the husband accidentally killed one of the kids. The wife then made a baby with another man. But she and the husband are in their 80s and still together.

I gotta think of other stories.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I hatched a story with some drama. In it a trailer park skank is used as bait by a hit man to kill his targets.

 

[lovecraft68]

I feel you...I'm trying to write a horror novel that has a gothic feel to it and I can catch it, but can't maintain it and when I read through I can see where I had it then lost it and found it again, , meaning so can the reader.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

I feel you...I'm trying to write a horror novel that has a gothic feel to it and I can catch it, but can't maintain it and when I read through I can see where I had it then lost it and found it again, , meaning so can the reader.

Can't maintain a Gothic feel?!

Pop an album like this one on, go for a walk in a cemetery while listening to it when it starts raining later this afternoon, and clear your head.

 

[49greg]

I once worked with a woman named Ruby who lived in a trailer. It was during my long sojourn in Texas. She was in her mid sixties and occasionally dyed her hair red. Usually when the grey roots got to be a few inches long.

She went through new boyfriends every few months. Once someone asked about the latest one, Jim Bob, or Leon or Ray or someone. She told us she had to throw him out, he insisted on cooking bacon and she couldn't stand the smell of the stuff.

I can't imagine not liking the smell of cooking bacon, but she was a woman with strong opinions.

She lived in a strange trailer park on the north end of town. There was one road in and out of there, and not only had a tornado never hit the place, but every time we got a real frog strangler, the road got flooded out and no-one could get in or out for a few days. She missed a lot of work in the spring.

 

[weftandwarp]

I cant find any. Trailer trash melodrama exists but is cartoonish.

I know the life. The life is plenty exciting but low quality, kinda like a slice or two better than a homeless camp beneath a bridge. The challenge for a writer is, there aint much to work with in terms of drama.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings got as close as anyone with her story, THE PARDON. A man goes to prison for murder. After a few years he's pardoned and comes home to his wife and kids and some extra kids. He counts heads and his wife says, I HADDA DO SOMETHING TO KEEP US FED. She refuses to sleep with him and parks him in the bedroom with the new kids. I knew women like the wife.

I recall a couple where the husband accidentally killed one of the kids. The wife then made a baby with another man. But she and the husband are in their 80s and still together.

I gotta think of other stories.

I kind of like it that there aren't many. I think that "trash" is an inappropriate word. People living in caravans(trailers)
are just as good as others- in fact, they probably have the more sustainable way of living. If more people lived in caravans it would take a lot of pressure off of cities. Psychologically, it is probably preferable to live in a caravan in a caravan park than the isolation of a house in suburbia. So, why aren't there stories about the healthy living of a caravan park? I know there are a lot of people who are disrespectful to those who live in caravan parks. It's never seemed fair to me. Even caravan park management are frequently disrespectful, though they love the money they get and the power they have. Here, there have been a few who have sold their parks for housing developments so half a dozen houses can be built and the hundred or more caravan occupants have to find new parks that simply don't exist. I really don't get it. One sees whole suburbs of run down houses with over grown or dead gardens that have become too much for elderly and or disinterested occupants, that are subjected to theft and vandalism on a regular basis. At the same time I see caravans with carefully tended little gardens in pots and little mementos around them that are wonderfully livable. So, why aren't there stories about the good aspects of caravan parks and the integrity of them and the people in them instead of looking for the few rotten apples? It would be a lot more honest.

 

[uksnowy]

Thereby is a challenge to write about it. We use touring caravan parks in the UK and have seen lots of trash people and activity as well as too posh and up their own arse. Might try.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I kind of like it that there aren't many. I think that "trash" is an inappropriate word. People living in caravans(trailers)
are just as good as others- in fact, they probably have the more sustainable way of living. If more people lived in caravans it would take a lot of pressure off of cities. Psychologically, it is probably preferable to live in a caravan in a caravan park than the isolation of a house in suburbia. So, why aren't there stories about the healthy living of a caravan park? I know there are a lot of people who are disrespectful to those who live in caravan parks. It's never seemed fair to me. Even caravan park management are frequently disrespectful, though they love the money they get and the power they have. Here, there have been a few who have sold their parks for housing developments so half a dozen houses can be built and the hundred or more caravan occupants have to find new parks that simply don't exist. I really don't get it. One sees whole suburbs of run down houses with over grown or dead gardens that have become too much for elderly and or disinterested occupants, that are subjected to theft and vandalism on a regular basis. At the same time I see caravans with carefully tended little gardens in pots and little mementos around them that are wonderfully livable. So, why aren't there stories about the good aspects of caravan parks and the integrity of them and the people in them instead of looking for the few rotten apples? It would be a lot more honest.

I read a book such as you prefer, and it was boring. I looked at other such books, and none of them seemed authentic. I know too much about trailer dwellers.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Anyway, I assembled a tale about some trailer people. A hit man connects with two lingerie models and uses the girls as bait for his targets. All reside at the Joyland Trailer Park, the park is behind the Hawg Heaven Bar, the Come & Go Store, and other places common to trailer trash. there's even a porn studio located next to the local high school. I call the locale Hooker's Point. You can find all of it in Tampa.

 

[49greg]

Anyway, I assembled a tale about some trailer people. A hit man connects with two lingerie models and uses the girls as bait for his targets. All reside at the Joyland Trailer Park, the park is behind the Hawg Heaven Bar, the Come & Go Store, and other places common to trailer trash. there's even a porn studio located next to the local high school. I call the locale Hooker's Point. You can find all of it in Tampa.

You mentioned 'Come & Go store'. Don't know if there is such a store or you made it up. But up where I live there is a small regional chain of of gas station/convenience stores called "Kum and Go". I'm not making it up. The name is, of course, the butt of many jokes.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

You mentioned 'Come & Go store'. Don't know if there is such a store or you made it up. But up where I live there is a small regional chain of of gas station/convenience stores called "Kum and Go". I'm not making it up. The name is, of course, the butt of many jokes.

Good name for a lingerie shop

 

[Carnal_Flower]

There's Trailer Trash Noir, and there's just . . . Trailer Trash

 

[ChloeTzang]

Anyway, I assembled a tale about some trailer people. A hit man connects with two lingerie models and uses the girls as bait for his targets. All reside at the Joyland Trailer Park, the park is behind the Hawg Heaven Bar, the Come & Go Store, and other places common to trailer trash. there's even a porn studio located next to the local high school. I call the locale Hooker's Point. You can find all of it in Tampa.

I think you've just given me an idea for my Nude Day story ... going to rework the Noir one I was working on .... "Lovecraft and my Grandpops" for the Nude Day competition. Throw in a few SJW's, some rednecks, my heroine and her grandpops the hard-ass redneck cop, a sleazy bar and H. P. Lovecraft and it's gotta be good.

Trailer Trash Noir. Thank you thank you thankyou ... I love it!

 

[lovecraft68]

I think you've just given me an idea for my Nude Day story ... going to rework the Noir one I was working on .... "Lovecraft and my Grandpops" for the Nude Day competition. Throw in a few SJW's, some rednecks, my heroine and her grandpops the hard-ass redneck cop, a sleazy bar and H. P. Lovecraft and it's gotta be good.

Trailer Trash Noir. Thank you thank you thankyou ... I love it!

Just don't put in a real version of HP Lovecraft, he was way to agoraphobic to be seen in a bar. The guy was phobic about everything, that's why he wrote horror, all his 'evils' are based on his personal fears. He created all the Innsmouth stuff because he was afraid of seafood

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I think you've just given me an idea for my Nude Day story ... going to rework the Noir one I was working on .... "Lovecraft and my Grandpops" for the Nude Day competition. Throw in a few SJW's, some rednecks, my heroine and her grandpops the hard-ass redneck cop, a sleazy bar and H. P. Lovecraft and it's gotta be good.

Trailer Trash Noir. Thank you thank you thankyou ... I love it!

I know about redneck cops. We locked horns when I was 8 years old and it took him 40 years to screw me, but he did.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I would suggest Dorothy Allison, but she's a big lesbo, so, forget it

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https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.GtNxEKnj9I1m48oLWps_sADIEs&w=200&h=299&c=7&qlt=90&o=4&dpr=1.25&pid=1.7

I gotta think of other stories.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I would suggest Dorothy Allison.....]

Thankyou. I'd never come across her. Just ordered Trash and Bastard out of Carolina after taking a look.