Episode 10: Move Along

Cody’s secret is out. Jordan’s unexpected response only confirms that a rift is forming between the two friends, leaving them both wondering what comes next now that the future they planned seems to be falling apart.

Tyler discovers that connecting with his little brother is forcing him to confront some uncomfortable truths about himself. And elsewhere, Wes’s 1995 Town Car may be resurrected, but Jessie quickly decides he’s done driving for the night.

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Rust on the Allegheny - the “Prequel” to Last Night at the Mall

Did you know, there’s a prequel to Last Night at the Mall? Well, okay, maybe not EXACTLY a prequel, but…

In Latonia City, Pennsylvania, the past doesn’t rest—it seeps up like crude.

In 2019, a reluctant writer returns to his hometown newspaper. 80 years earlier, in 1939, a boy hatches a plan to sneak into a local theater to see a jazz show. And on a rainy night in 1982, a college student picks up a bloodied hitchhiker. These three men share two things in common: their last name, and a longing to reconcile with fathers they don’t understand.

Three men. Three eras. One legacy they can’t outrun.

Each story is a thread woven into the legacy of the MacCulloch family — dreamers, laborers, and survivors of Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt, haunted by a curse that spans decades. Through shifting perspectives, their journeys illuminate the cost of progress, the ache of memory, and a stubborn hope that refuses to die.

Set along the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania’s oil region, Rust on the Allegheny is a multi-generational family saga filled with Rust Belt history, small-town secrets, and the haunting weight of the past. Steeped in the grit of America’s industrial heartland, it captures a community clinging to memory while facing an uncertain future, in the quiet decay of moldering Victorian manors and empty Art Deco theaters in an American town that once pulsed with life.

Rich, atmospheric, and deeply human, Rust on the Allegheny, a novel by Corey McCullough will resonate with readers of character-driven historical fiction, American family sagas, and small-town dramas where history refuses to stay buried. 

And, bonus points for you listeners, Last Night at the Mall has a few Easter Eggs hidden throughout that tie it to the city and story of Rust on the Allegheny.

If you know someone who would be interested in the sort of story I just described, a signed paperback copy makes a great gift (available through my website), or you can grab it in ebook or audiobook format as well. The audiobook is free on YouTube.