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I'm writing a story that takes place in 2003 and the main location is a fictional small desert town in Nevada. The main action of the story will take place in one house that I'd like to be fairly "in the middle of nowhere" off of a main access road from the town. I'm thinking to have my house as a converted mining barracks (formerly used by a ( Read more... )

I know this is a little general, but any help would be much appreciated. I've got a story set in a coal mining town, and I just need a lot of general info about how such a mine would work, and what miners would be doing. The more detail the better, obviously, but the story is set around a town where coal mining is the main employer, and isn't about ( Read more... )

I have a character who needs to dig up a grave to get a live person out of a coffin. (The guy in the coffin is immortal, don't worry about him.) He's using a shovel. He's also trying to dig the coffin up as quickly as possible, because although his friend in the coffin could survive indefinitely, he's a little panicked by the fact his friend has ( Read more... )

Not googled; I wouldn't know where to start.

Situation: An immortal has been dumped into a hole (about 2 meters long, 1 meter wide, 3 meters deep) onto a level surface of concrete (1 meter deep) then covered with wet concrete (buried and entombed). A 1.5 meter depth of concrete is poured over the body, and once cured for a few days is covered with ( Read more... )

Does anyone know from firsthand experience what the soil is like in Massachusetts somewhere between, say, Lexington and Salem ( Read more... )