Where the Skinman Roams

A MYSTERIOUS CREATURE HAS RECENTLY EMERGED IN THE ISOLATED BACKWOODS TOWN OF CROPPER, ALABAMA; A SHAPESHIFTING TROUBLEMAKING ENTITY THE TOWNSFOLK HAVE CHRISTENED THE SKINMAN. WHO IS HE, WHY IS HE THERE, WHAT DOES HE WANT; THESE ARE ALL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, BUT… HOW ABOUT THIS QUESTION – IS THEIR SO-CALLED SKINMAN REAL? DOES HE EXIST, PHYSICALLY? OR IS HE A SYMBOLIC MANIFESTATION THE TOWNSFOLK COLLECTIVELY CONJURED UP AS A PAWN ON WHICH TO BLAME A RECENT SPATE OF CRIME AND OTHER ASSORTED ODDITIES PLAGUING THE TYPICALLY EVER-SO-MELLOW SMALL TOWN OF CROPPER?OR COULD IT BE THAT CROPPER ITSELF IS WHAT DOESN’T EXIST, AT LEAST ON THIS LEVEL OF REALITY? WHAT OF THAT VAST AND MAGNIFICENT UNDERGROUND LABORATORY THAT NO ONE IN TOWN KNOWS ABOUT? COULD IT BE THE AFTEREFFECTS OF THE EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED DOWN THERE ARE CAUSING THINGS TO GO HAYWIRE ABOVEGROUND? IT SEEMS THEY ARE OPENING DOORS TO AMAZING AND PHANTASMIC POSSIBILITIES, AND DISCOVERING THINGS LONG CONSIDERED UNATTAINABLE.DOES THE ARRIVAL