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Canyon Park is bowed down under a relentless torrent of rain. The fields are flooded, the bridges crumble and the increasingly isolated town is host to a serial killer with a grudge against the wealthy Lollo family. Slipping between a small cast of characters; the killer, the tortured policeman hiding a dark secret, the returning son, the inquisitive librarian, the boy caught between cultures.... each of these marred, struggling humans a part of the threadbare fabric of the town. Throughout the story, secrets and motivations are slowly revealed, people continue to die, and it continues to rain. -

Emily from POD People

The story is about a Native American, driven to madness by his experience growing up in the small upstate New York town of Canyon Park being discriminated, molested and ostracized. In his mind, various characters of his tribe's mythology and American popular culture vie for his soul. He terrorizes the residents of Canyon Park, murdering those he judges guilty, to punish them for their crimes against him and his ancestors. Strangely, since the killing spree began, there has been a deluge of constant rain adding to the dismal mood and hampering efforts to stop him while the resident also battle nature's fury. Under these conditions, various characters gather from places as close as the local library, to as far away as New York City, to absolve their sins and stop their beloved town from being eroded away.

All the characters are eventually stripped bare in this trying time and face their naked souls, their dark inner parts that they are afraid to see and their true selves. America's national guilt over the destruction of the Native American culture is weaved through the motivation of the characters as they struggle with the consequences of acts they committed in the past or the acts of their kin.

The Indian Boarding Schools and the Mythology of Iroquois Creation Myth were thoroughly researched and are based on fact though the setting and characters are all fictional.

Erosion by Lon S. Cohen is available in paperback from Lulu.com.


Thanks Tom Cote for his version of Amazing Grace in my last chapter. Check out his music here.

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Audio Quality: Out of 24 ratings

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Overall Rating: Out of 24 ratings

By: Zack
First off, thanks to Lon for writing this great podiobook. Second, Erosion is a very apt title for this book. The literal and figurative erosion of a small town, the erosion of a family, the erosion of an entire culture, and the erosion of a man's sanity all come together to form a great and entertaining story.

By: Lon
Some of the lengths varied but only the intro was less than 10 minutes. I did the episodes by chapters and each one has an intro and outro as per the Podiobook guidelines. When you read a book you separate by chapters. Since this is not a "podcast" per se but a Podiobook, I believe the "rules" are different. Sorry you found that annoying but you never really commented on the book's content and story line except that it was OK. "Annoying laugh and comments on intros and outros is not very useful feedback. Thanks for listening anyway,

By: Tony C
The story line was Ok. I did have problems trying to keep up with which character was talking. My biggest complaint was the length of the podcasts. Some of them were 5, 7 8 minutes long. You say a couple of sentences and then the episode is over. Between the intro with the Ifrog stuff and the long rain at the end and then at annoying laughing, I still don't know why that was necessary on every episode. It made some epidodes 3-5 minutes long. Terrible. I know some of you are new writers and new at podcasting. But please make the episodes in the 30 minute range. If you download all the episodes and want to listen to one after another it is extremely annoying to have to keep messing with the Ipod every couple of minutes. Nobody does 3-5 minute episodes. Try to plan your podcasts a little better next book.

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