Black Hills Sandy Shortt Has Been Haunted

Sandy Shortt Has Been Haunted by What Happens When Something -- or Someone -- Disappears

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a Sense of Fun and the Unexpected in the Use of Plants or Accessories

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Black Hills Sandy Shortt Has Been HauntedPaha Sapa, "Black Hills," is a Red Indian Shaman Who As a Young Boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn Takes the Ghost of the Dying General Custer Into His Own Body. Sixty Years Later As an Old Man Working As a Dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, He Plots to Blow It Up. Meanwhile, Custer Finds Himself Trapped in a Strange, Dark Place and Begins to Write Sensuous, Heartbreaking Missives to His Beloved Wife. Thus Begins an Intricate Narrative That Sweeps Across