Amos: To Ride A Dead Horse

By: Stanley G. West

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Synopsis: Set in the early '60s in a sudden turn of events, Amos survives a tragic accident that kills his wife and leaves him with a shattered hip, without family, and penniless, he is taken to the county poor farm, Sunset Home. Having nothing to live for, Amos believes his life is over and he resolves to let go and die as quickly as possible, isolating himself from the other residents of the poor farm. Under head nurse Daisy Daws's iron rule, Amos witnesses the unthinkable horror by chance in the middle of the night. This reawakens his deeply felt sense of justice and he resolves to live on. He can't let her get away with it.