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  • CJ MAGAZINE
  • Style & Submit
    • About CJ
  • Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.
    • Folks, It's Ags Connolly!
    • The Room
    • Dressing in Front of the Open Gas Oven for Warmth
    • 3 Prose Poems by Jeffrey Herman
    • The Cat in the Guest Bedroom
    • Last Call at Tully's Joint
    • Keepsake
    • The Sold Man
    • My Man Tomato Can
    • The Alternator
    • Blue Skies
    • Ain't No Dark Til Something Shines
    • Old Skip
    • Chicago Skyline
    • Uptown Lanes
    • Behind the Door
  • Books
    • WEST OF DESTRY
    • Small Town Mastodons
    • Traveling Alone
    • All and Then None of You
    • Poachers and Pills
    • Poor Birds
    • The Lowest Basin
    • Nothing Good Ever Happens in a Flyover State
    • THE TICKS WILL EAT YOU WHOLE
    • Rolling on the Bottom
    • Oblivion Angels
    • The New Salvation
    • TEXAS WIND
    • Silences, Ohio
    • WHERE DARK THINGS GROW
    • San Diego Stories
    • HONKY
    • The Wild Familiar
    • KUDZU by Clem Flowers
    • IN LINE AT WALMART WITH ALL THE OTHER DAMNED
    • I CAN OUTDANCE JESUS
    • MOTEL
  • Sheldon Lee Compton
    • Ghosts by Sheldon Lee Compton
    • I AM WAR MR TOLSTOY
    • Her Little Place of Dying
    • The Caretaker
    • On SLC's Brown Bottle
    • Somebody Take Care of Little Walter
    • Oblivion Angels
    • The Orchard Is Full of Sound (excerpt)
    • Dog With a Rabbit's Head
    • By-blow
    • Until the Going Down of the River
    • The Judas Steer
    • Tooling Up
    • DYSPHORIA (excerpt)
  • Interviews, Reviews, & Presses
    • CJ Music Review Matt Moran & the Palominos The Ba'ar
    • CJ Music Review WPH STILL FEELIN' THE PAYNE
    • CJ Music Review R Porter Roll with the Punches
    • Shelby Hinte's Howling Women
    • Of Fathers & Gods
    • Awakenings Review
    • Jaded by Wilson Koewing
    • Jesse Hilson's The Tattletales
    • Here in the Dark by Meagan Lucas
    • Sophomore Slump by Leigh Chadwick
    • Shadows Slow Dancing in Derelict Room
    • Anthony Koronda's Broken Bottles
    • Scott Blackburn's It Dies With You
    • Donald Ryan's Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell
    • Jay Gertzman's The Promise of Country Noir
    • Hard Mountain Clay Review
    • Blake Johnson's Prodigal: An American Parable
  • Jobbers
    • Dead Wrestlers
    • The Night Bruiser Came to Town
    • Big Rig by Shaun Jex
    • A Night Out with Big Ricky by Katy Goforth
    • War Eagle by David Barker
    • True Dreams of Wichita by Shaun Jex
    • Doink the Clown Works Birthday Parties by Michael Chin
    • The Ballad of Ethel Bridges by David P. Barker
    • House Show in Badger County High School Gym by Simon Nagel
    • 288 Miles by David P. Barker
    • Corn Dogs by Shaun Jex
    • Getting Ready + Cowboy by Michael Chin
    • American Dream by Robert Libbey
    • Training Partner by A.A. Rubin
    • Finding the von Erichs by Shaun Jex
    • The Making of Big Sandy by Michael Carter
    • Pot Roast from Vance Godbey's by Mark A. Nobles
    • Abdullah the Butcher in Gotham by Mark A. Nobles
    • PWI by Josh Olsen
  • CJ Issues Archive
    • Oh Death!
    • Flood Waters
    • with Alacrity!
    • the Family Strain
    • All We Need of Hell-Harry Crews Tribute
    • My Dog Died-a Larry Brown inspired issue
    • Rural Enterprises
    • Grotesque to Art-in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock
    • Henry Chinaski is a Friend of Mine-the Charles Bukowski issue
    • a Mess of Catfish
    • Prine Primed-incited by John Prine
    • Asquint
    • Buried Child-inspired by Sam Shepard
    • New Fools Are Here to Take Your Place-incited by Breece D'J Pancake
    • THALIA ET ALIA-incited by Larry McMurtry
    • Country & Folk
    • Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
    • ISSUE 9.2: the All Covers Album >
      • Sitting in the Laundromat with A Manual for Cleaning Women
      • Kentucky Folklore
      • Caught in a Trap
      • Are You Sure Merle Done It This Way?
      • Tracking
      • Playing Hooky
      • Evangelina & Hunting Bremmer's Mesa
      • Catty-Corner House
      • Blood on the Creek Bank
      • Skeeter
      • Vivian Davis, American
      • Thyroid
      • Wonderin'
      • Playing Cowboy
      • Old Dog
      • Archipelago
      • Keep YR Eye on the Moon
      • 3 Poems by Justin Carter
      • It Ain't Me
      • Heaven's Gonna Have a Honky-Tonk
    • ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK >
      • Deadhead
      • Fickster the Fixer
      • Get the Money
      • Shady Acres
      • The Ugly Death of Ferrari McGee
      • Burly Pete Calls It A Day
      • Blame It On The Blue Line
      • The Detective
      • The Tattletales (excerpt)
    • ISSUE 10.2: Tough Women, Gritty Tales >
      • "Stupid" by Rebecca Tiger
      • "Rattlesnakes" by Sabrina Hicks
      • "Destination Unknown" by Sarah Holloway
      • "Juniper" by Sarah Holloway
      • "The Stand" by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
      • "On Friday, Good Catholics Eat Fish" by Terena Elizabeth Bell
      • "Bodies in Bags" by Jamie Gallagher
      • "Sun Down" by Amy Marques
      • "Fourteen" by Megan Hanlon
      • "A Stroll" by Natalie Nee
      • "White Biped Form, 1954" by Mary Thorson
      • "Thanks for Stopping" by Tom Andes
      • "Dog Days" by Angela James
      • "26" by Pam Avoledo
      • "To The Men I've Missed" by Katy Goforth
  • Our Father's Lit: Western Pulp

Oblivion Angels
​a novel

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OBLIVON ANGELS

by SHELDON LEE COMPTON

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​Praise for Oblivion Angels and Sheldon Lee Compton

“Oblivion Angels is a multi-generational micro-saga of family dynamics, alcoholism, and all the impossible dichotomies of eastern Kentucky life. Compton’s characters are so flawed and familiar that you can’t help but love them. This novel replicates perfectly how it feels to grieve, to thirst, and to parent a child through the tangled time warp of addiction. A deeply thoughtful story written with tender respect for its subjects and setting.”
–Leah Hampton, author of 
F*ckface and Other Stories

“Sheldon Lee Compton's beautifully written Oblivion Angels is a remarkable achievement, one of the most honest and heartbreaking novels I have ever read.”
–Donald Ray Pollock, author of 
The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table

“Tracking its compelling cast of characters across several Kentucky counties and four decades, Oblivion Angels is a hard-driving, huge-hearted dynamo of a book. In razor-sharp prose, Compton captures the complex nature of family and the resilient power of human connection. Certain writers make you want to read, and others make you want to write. Sheldon Lee Compton does both.”
–Ryan Ridge, author of 
Hunters & Gamblers and New Bad News

“Oblivion Angels is a stark but intimate depiction of how family dynamics are intertwined with addiction. Excessive alcohol, meth, and pain pills are easily acquired in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and they make their way through every generation of the Reed Family. Sheldon Lee Compton brings this family to life in a fast-paced story that illuminates a bleak world of violence and heartache.”
–Denton Loving, author of 
Tamp

“Compton has proven once again why he is the writer’s writer of Appalachian noir.”
–Wes Browne, author of 
They All Fall the Same


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  • CJ MAGAZINE
  • Style & Submit
    • About CJ
  • Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.
    • Folks, It's Ags Connolly!
    • The Room
    • Dressing in Front of the Open Gas Oven for Warmth
    • 3 Prose Poems by Jeffrey Herman
    • The Cat in the Guest Bedroom
    • Last Call at Tully's Joint
    • Keepsake
    • The Sold Man
    • My Man Tomato Can
    • The Alternator
    • Blue Skies
    • Ain't No Dark Til Something Shines
    • Old Skip
    • Chicago Skyline
    • Uptown Lanes
    • Behind the Door
  • Books
    • WEST OF DESTRY
    • Small Town Mastodons
    • Traveling Alone
    • All and Then None of You
    • Poachers and Pills
    • Poor Birds
    • The Lowest Basin
    • Nothing Good Ever Happens in a Flyover State
    • THE TICKS WILL EAT YOU WHOLE
    • Rolling on the Bottom
    • Oblivion Angels
    • The New Salvation
    • TEXAS WIND
    • Silences, Ohio
    • WHERE DARK THINGS GROW
    • San Diego Stories
    • HONKY
    • The Wild Familiar
    • KUDZU by Clem Flowers
    • IN LINE AT WALMART WITH ALL THE OTHER DAMNED
    • I CAN OUTDANCE JESUS
    • MOTEL
  • Sheldon Lee Compton
    • Ghosts by Sheldon Lee Compton
    • I AM WAR MR TOLSTOY
    • Her Little Place of Dying
    • The Caretaker
    • On SLC's Brown Bottle
    • Somebody Take Care of Little Walter
    • Oblivion Angels
    • The Orchard Is Full of Sound (excerpt)
    • Dog With a Rabbit's Head
    • By-blow
    • Until the Going Down of the River
    • The Judas Steer
    • Tooling Up
    • DYSPHORIA (excerpt)
  • Interviews, Reviews, & Presses
    • CJ Music Review Matt Moran & the Palominos The Ba'ar
    • CJ Music Review WPH STILL FEELIN' THE PAYNE
    • CJ Music Review R Porter Roll with the Punches
    • Shelby Hinte's Howling Women
    • Of Fathers & Gods
    • Awakenings Review
    • Jaded by Wilson Koewing
    • Jesse Hilson's The Tattletales
    • Here in the Dark by Meagan Lucas
    • Sophomore Slump by Leigh Chadwick
    • Shadows Slow Dancing in Derelict Room
    • Anthony Koronda's Broken Bottles
    • Scott Blackburn's It Dies With You
    • Donald Ryan's Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell
    • Jay Gertzman's The Promise of Country Noir
    • Hard Mountain Clay Review
    • Blake Johnson's Prodigal: An American Parable
  • Jobbers
    • Dead Wrestlers
    • The Night Bruiser Came to Town
    • Big Rig by Shaun Jex
    • A Night Out with Big Ricky by Katy Goforth
    • War Eagle by David Barker
    • True Dreams of Wichita by Shaun Jex
    • Doink the Clown Works Birthday Parties by Michael Chin
    • The Ballad of Ethel Bridges by David P. Barker
    • House Show in Badger County High School Gym by Simon Nagel
    • 288 Miles by David P. Barker
    • Corn Dogs by Shaun Jex
    • Getting Ready + Cowboy by Michael Chin
    • American Dream by Robert Libbey
    • Training Partner by A.A. Rubin
    • Finding the von Erichs by Shaun Jex
    • The Making of Big Sandy by Michael Carter
    • Pot Roast from Vance Godbey's by Mark A. Nobles
    • Abdullah the Butcher in Gotham by Mark A. Nobles
    • PWI by Josh Olsen
  • CJ Issues Archive
    • Oh Death!
    • Flood Waters
    • with Alacrity!
    • the Family Strain
    • All We Need of Hell-Harry Crews Tribute
    • My Dog Died-a Larry Brown inspired issue
    • Rural Enterprises
    • Grotesque to Art-in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock
    • Henry Chinaski is a Friend of Mine-the Charles Bukowski issue
    • a Mess of Catfish
    • Prine Primed-incited by John Prine
    • Asquint
    • Buried Child-inspired by Sam Shepard
    • New Fools Are Here to Take Your Place-incited by Breece D'J Pancake
    • THALIA ET ALIA-incited by Larry McMurtry
    • Country & Folk
    • Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
    • ISSUE 9.2: the All Covers Album >
      • Sitting in the Laundromat with A Manual for Cleaning Women
      • Kentucky Folklore
      • Caught in a Trap
      • Are You Sure Merle Done It This Way?
      • Tracking
      • Playing Hooky
      • Evangelina & Hunting Bremmer's Mesa
      • Catty-Corner House
      • Blood on the Creek Bank
      • Skeeter
      • Vivian Davis, American
      • Thyroid
      • Wonderin'
      • Playing Cowboy
      • Old Dog
      • Archipelago
      • Keep YR Eye on the Moon
      • 3 Poems by Justin Carter
      • It Ain't Me
      • Heaven's Gonna Have a Honky-Tonk
    • ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK >
      • Deadhead
      • Fickster the Fixer
      • Get the Money
      • Shady Acres
      • The Ugly Death of Ferrari McGee
      • Burly Pete Calls It A Day
      • Blame It On The Blue Line
      • The Detective
      • The Tattletales (excerpt)
    • ISSUE 10.2: Tough Women, Gritty Tales >
      • "Stupid" by Rebecca Tiger
      • "Rattlesnakes" by Sabrina Hicks
      • "Destination Unknown" by Sarah Holloway
      • "Juniper" by Sarah Holloway
      • "The Stand" by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
      • "On Friday, Good Catholics Eat Fish" by Terena Elizabeth Bell
      • "Bodies in Bags" by Jamie Gallagher
      • "Sun Down" by Amy Marques
      • "Fourteen" by Megan Hanlon
      • "A Stroll" by Natalie Nee
      • "White Biped Form, 1954" by Mary Thorson
      • "Thanks for Stopping" by Tom Andes
      • "Dog Days" by Angela James
      • "26" by Pam Avoledo
      • "To The Men I've Missed" by Katy Goforth
  • Our Father's Lit: Western Pulp