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Winter, 1957, Billings Montana. Seven year old Tommy is the oldest child in the Sterner family. At this time, he has two younger brothers and a two-year-old sister. Tommy´s dad is a roofer, a job that is dictated by the weather. He´s also an alcoholic and a mean one at that. Almost daily Jackie, Tommy´s brother, will do something that his dad doesn´t like, resulting in a beating with the belt and standing in the corner and heaven forbid if he comes home drunk, looking for a fight. That´s when Tommy´s mother gets the bad end of his fist and boot. Carroll, is the glue that keeps the family together. She does everything she can to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Tommy´s dad, on the other hand, will blow every penny he can get his hands on to keep him in alcohol. The kids can go hungry and the landlord can evict them, as long as he has his drinking money. Momma´s Rain is a fascinating account of a life full of poverty, abuse and addiction, and yet; survival, hope and love. As the story progresses, mother and son must consider the mysteries of their life in a world filled with impulses of curiosity along with the complexity of surviving nature, life and death.

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Sterner, Tom
Tom (WordWulf) Sterner is a writer, vocalist and multi/media artist. He lives in Colorado. His music, novels, poetry, stories, art, and photography have been published in magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, New American Dream, The Storyteller, Carpe Articulum Literary Review and Flashquake.

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