The Holey Sweets Underwear Manufacturing Company — Charles Harvey

New York attitude clashes with small Texas town values is the best way to describe The Holey Sweets Underwear Manufacturing Company. Holey Sweets run by its notorious lying President Ronald Crump, needs cheap labor and land for its factory to make its new line of sexy male and female lingerie. Edna Glaspey needs a job. However, a conniving president in cahoots with local authorities to rake the town for all its worth, a serial killer on the loose, and its notorious prostitution ring run by the 500 pound bedridden "Blind Pudding causes quite a bit of havoc for Butler's Butt." Add healthy doses of nearly slave labor and pollution, and poor Edna wonders what kind of mess she's gotten herself into. Excerpt:A couple of days later with the wind whipping her hair, Edna found herself gripping the steering wheel of her sky blue Taurus and wondering why a sensible and Christian woman like herself was even thinking about going to see a beast like Blind Pudding. Lord, if people found out that she was resorting to consulting a psychic or prophet, she'd be the talk of Butler's Butt. Edna checked her rearview mirror. Two big crumpled bags of groceries sat like judgment witnesses-silent and scornful in the back seat of her car. She could just turn around right then and there if it was a place to turn around on FM 777, Edna thought. Even when she saw many cut-off spots in the highway's median, Edna told herself she was going too fast, it looked dangerous, the car behind her was following too close, or the area was muddy and rocky. "Stop trying to fool yourself, Edna Glaspey. You ain't wanting to go back home," a voice in her head scolded. The voice was accompanied by the gospel melody:I'm too close to heavenNo, I can't turn I can't turn around.I won't turn aroundEdna knew she wasn't going to no place close to Heaven. People said Blind Pudding smelled like ten dead men and he certainly was as big. She had thought about stopping by Clyde's to borrow a respirator, but that would have ar