The Potboiler Podcast

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, Part One.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.  Let’s do the intro.Over the path of Hollow Grim’s life, following his legendary lawman father around their small Nevada town, in his early days as a military marksman for hire, and in the dying days of the nineteenth century, an antagonist with influence conducts the instruments that make life hard for his innocent community over and over.The musician has a name: Werner Worthington III. Those who know him best call him Worm. He always stands far enough from the fray to avoid implication, but close enough to smile at his victims. No one is permitted to cal him Worm anymore. Nevada has been made to regret that ridicule.After decades of crime too organized to put a hook into, a warrant is finally issued for the only man Hollow Grim has truly wanted to see dead.  He knows he won’t be the only killer on his trail. He knows the line between his rifle and Worthington will be anything but a straight line.There’s no way this ends clean.The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves to shine.  Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim knows a confrontation with Sterling Stern is inevitable and necessary, to end the exploitation of his father’s legacy in law enforcement. As he prepares to leave for Chicago, the new telephone in the Progress Hotel begins to chime.  The former Tribune reporter and chronicler of his father’s exploits has the same thoughts about inevitability and tells him over the line that he intends to write the right ending for the story he believes is shared between the three of them.Riders have him surrounded. Their mission is clear. The downfall is upon them. The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Downfall, part two.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.  Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents. His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of his legendary father, Marshal Charlie Grim. His father’s name was built in ink, in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, reported by a writer named Sterling Stern. They were the hero and his troubadour.Years after Charlie’s death, Hollow encounters the role that his father’s biographer played in crafting his legend, and how he continues to profit from it. He resolves that ending is going to have to be written not worthy of print. The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready to face the bad guy.  Let’s do the intro.Todd needs Eric’s help. A disgruntled worker at an office building downtown has taken his coworkers hostage, and has a bomb set explode. Todd doesn’t have time to negotiate or space to rush the scene. He knows that Eric is his best and only chance.The encounter Eric enters will reset the trajectory of Eric’s public life. A door is going to be open for him that is awfully difficult to close.

Eric has spent a life not being injured and aware he was being hurt. He didn’t have the awareness to understand the pain he’d endured could have an affect on the people that care for him. As he shares more of his story with Molly he has to contend with the hurt she feels for him.As Todd discovers that the motel fire was likely arson, Eric is also forced to confront that his actions draw attention and attention brings consequences.The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial interruption. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.Eric Verrity Rocks

Eric’s heroic deeds have reintroduced his long estranged foster brother into his life, and while his relationship with Molly deepens, his life of solitude and habit is becoming an increasingly distant memory. At the same time his new doctor is seeking a deeper understanding of his strength and his weaknesses.After leaving a session with his doctor, Eric encounters a young woman on the bus that appears to need his help. He embarks on a rescue that ends tragically but commands popular media attention in the aftermath focused more on his notoriety than his desire to help. Heroism invites conflicted scrutiny. Good deeds often come with a consequence.The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial interruption. Visit patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.Eric Verrity Rocks

Eric’s memories of his therapy as a teenager with Doctor Harmon and the parallel lines stringing to his current discussions with Doctor Maynard diverge as young Eric learns Doctor Harmon has terminal cancer and is getting his affairs in order. Arrangements have been made to see Eric securely into financial adulthood. Meanwhile, Dr. Maynard clinical interest in his patient grows into fascination as he continues to probe his heroics pursuits.On a regular night in his neighborhood, Eric stumbles across a fire at a motel and women trapped in her room. After a harrowing rescue, people crowd around him, converging with a threat he’s never experienced, admiration.As his relationship with Molly grows, and he eagerly awaits another spaghetti dinner, Eric is dumbfounded to find a face from his past, investigating the headlines featuring his name, standing at his door. The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial interruption. Visit patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.Eric Verrity Rocks

As his court mandated therapy continues, Eric’s memory counters his new doctor’s interest in his pursuits with that of the child psychiatrist. Shortly after his foster brother Todd’s harrowing football injury, Dr. Harmon begins visits with Eric who has matched his brother in a descent into depression.Doctor Harmon quickly sees something special in Eric, encouraging him to accept the things that make him different to help him find a purpose.  Reflecting the growing relationship with Dr Maynard, Eric is encouraged to discuss his motives to identify the purpose that makes him so different.