Spoiled unpublished Willeford...
There was mention on the list of unpublished Willeford
appearing in Orange Pulp, a collection of Floridian crime
writers. The title of the piece is also the title of the
fictional television show the story is about. A
network-sanctioned reality television game show about russian
roulette. "The First Five in Line..." would be agit-pop if
written yesterday. Written in 1975, it is eerily
prophetic.
In a structure like a television "bible," a producer's folder
of character sketches and correspondence, TFFiL shows the
sociopathic politics of television magic and the pathetic
lives of some of the volunteers/psychiatric patients/game
show contestants. It is similar in tone to The Machine in
Ward Eleven.
Chong
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