{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Special Edition: Short Story 'Jawbone' from 5 of a Kind","description":"Today in this special feature of the Fearsome Fiction Podcast we\u2019re offering another short story from Mark McNease\u2019s collection, \u2018Five of a Kind.\u2019 Jawbone tells the story of young Richard who was eighteen years old when a head-on collision on a snowy Indiana road took the lower half of his face. He survived \u2014 and that, in many ways, was the cruelest part. We Richard Krump across the decades after his accident: the surgeries that promised normalcy and delivered nothing, the friends who never showed up to his homecoming party, the little girl in a drugstore who gave him his name, and the slow, steady retreat of everyone he ever loved \u2014 until only his books, his silence, and finally his paintings remained. A haunting, deeply human story about disfigurement, isolation, and the particular cruelty of surviving intact on the inside while the world refuses to see past the outside. Jawbone begins where a young man's life as he knew it ends. ","author_name":"Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More","author_url":"http:\/\/markmcneasemysteries.libsyn.com\/site","html":"