An allegedly true story about an ordinary human and a cold-case murder in Lake Powell, Utah.
“Sheriff Wyatt: The date is now March 19, 2026. With me is Detective Donnovan, Garrett Rees, and Kathi Dalguntas. I’m going over the unsolved murder of Ed McGarrison, back in 2000.”
REVIEWS for Fear and Loathing in Lake Powell
This was a wild, darkly funny ride—the kind of storytelling where you laugh at the absurdity and then suddenly realise that something genuinely terrible is unfolding underneath it.
There’s something fascinating about the way you blend absurdity, humor, and real human experiences into something that feels bigger than the individual events themselves.
I couldn’t help but cry when reading through [Chapter 4], especially when you talked about singing to your dad. Thank you for writing this. You have such a way with words, and your perspective on life and family is so beautiful.
The way you moved between time, voices, and places made this piece feel so incredibly intimate. Like grief and love were speaking to each other across decades.
Kathi writes a deeply moving piece on what it means to be human. To love, to lose, and to carry both forward. Through the way her father’s words carry through to her goodbye, this one stayed with me.
