None of the Lost DMB Files I’ve encountered so far have been as potentially explosive as Hell’s Womb. Brown must have recognized the fact. It appears he vacillated on publication of the story to the point of self-torture. To date I have found three fairly polished versions squirreled away in different journals Brown kept—one of them entirely in a personal shorthand that took me a week to decipher.
That said, there was little finishing work to be done before presenting Hell’s Womb to you the modern reader. Conversely, deciding which version (or combination of versions) to publish has been agonizingly difficult. After spending hours trying to understand Brown’s reasoning for the different versions, I think I’ve finally exhumed his original intent behind the story—to preserve sinister movements at the very core of the “benefactors” which I’ve yet to comprehend.
What I do know is that Brown believed a nefarious group of insiders to be at the helm of the formation of the Democratic Republic of Texicas. He believed these individuals capable of terminating his career and his life. He believed these “benefactors” to be heavily connected with Texas Pride Energy, the forerunners of the Texicas Department of Energy and Resources. Beyond that there is nothing but speculation. (Oh speculation, the contact sport of academia!)
Hell’s Womb appears to document an early (most likely earliest) outbreak of what we have come to know as the Twitch, but in an area with no such documented outbreak. Not only that, Hell’s Womb indicates that the source of the Twitch be manmade, intentional and that TPE be culpable.
What can be historically confirmed is that the Texas mining town of Thurber did indeed disappear from the map in approximate correlation with Brown’s timeline. Several theories have been perpetuated by locals, but the official explanation has always been that the narrow veins of coal in Thurber, while being rich bituminous deposits, simply became uneconomical to exhume as unions strengthened across the land.
Hell’s Womb provides an alternate explanation completely scandalous and shocking in nature. As to its historicity, I’ll let the reader decide.
Earnestly,
Professor Jim “Buck” Buckner
Department of Geology; University of Texicas, Austin
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Lost DMB Files
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