Rebecca Lynn Holloway [A.K.A Blacktop Bessie]

"The Ballad of Blacktop Bessie"

My name’s Rebecca Lynn "Bessie" Holloway, but everyone from the Dustbowl city limits to the grimy backrooms of Meadowgrove’s underground scene knows me as Blacktop Bessie. Yeah, like the murder ballad—except instead of some weeping willow of a girl pining after a no-good man, I’m the one holding the bloody tire iron, singing the confession while I polish my fingerprints off the handle. At least, that’s what folks see when I’m on stage. The truth? Shit. The truth is messier than my mama’s good china after a Saturday night brawl.

I was born in the kind of town that don’t so much die as it crumbles slow—where the only things thriving are the fire ants and the church gossip. Our trailer sat on cinderblocks behind Holloway Auto & Salvage, which meant my lullabies were the sounds of drunk men swearing at carburetors and my daddy’s belt snapping when my grades slipped. My grandpa was the only one who never tried to stifle the noise in my head. He was the town gravedigger for forty years, and he used to tell me stories about how the dead sing if you listen close enough. He’d let me ride along when he got called out to potter’s field jobs, where the nameless and the no-account got planted. That’s where I learned my first rhymes—improvised dirges for John Does with cigarette-burned lips and wrists still trailing broken handcuffs.

Then came Boondox. Found one of his CDs in the glovebox of a junked Ford F-150 that some fool had wrapped around the Dairy Queen sign—miraculously unharmed except for this single cracked disc labeled *Krimson Creek.* First time I heard that twanging horrorcore banjo, that gravel voice spinning tales about devil deals and backroad burials, I damn near cried. It was like someone had reached into my ribcage and plucked out every hungry, furious thought I’d ever choked down. Started writing my own verses the next day in the black-edged notebook Grandpa gave me for recording epitaphs.

First audience I ever had was the Rusty Nail bar regulars during the weekly karaoke night. I was fourteen, standing on a wobbly table in my secondhand boots, screaming about how Jesus quit Dustbowl after the meth lab explosion of ’09. Half of ‘em laughed. Other half made the sign of the cross. Old Man Henderson threw a pickled egg at my head. It was glorious. By junior year, I’d graduated to proper shows—garage parties where underage drinking was the tamest crime happening, 4-H talent shows that ended with parents yanking their kids out by the ears. My daddy stopped speaking to me for a solid month after the Baptist youth group incident.

Meadowgrove University was supposed to be my clean slate. The admissions folks took one look at my desperate 3.8 GPA and my portfolio of "unconventional extracurriculars" and figured they could mold me into something respectable. Joke’s on them—they just gave me a bigger platform to be myself.

These days, I divide my time between three personas:

1) Rebecca Holloway, Forensic Anthropology major. Quiet girl who smells like formaldehyde from her morgue job, always has headphones in, might blush if you catch her writing poetry in the library.

2) Morgue Technician #3. The nightshift shadow who hums Johnny Cash while inventorying toe tags and once turned the embalming room into an impromptu recording studio because "the acoustics are killer."

3) Blacktop Bessie. The monster that comes out after dark, dripping fake blood and real rage, singing hymns for the damned over beats made from tractor engine samples and chainsaw recordings.

It’s a precarious balance. My RA—some prissy bee princess named Samantha—keeps filing noise complaints about my "satanic ritual activities." The hipster squirrels in the art department leave me offerings of stolen guitar picks and bug carcasses. Andrea "Twiztid Hare" shows up to all my performances just to glare from the back like she’s trying to figure out if we should collab or kill each other. And somewhere back in Dustbowl, there’s a trailer with my name still scratched into the doorframe, waiting for the daughter who chose gravedigging over godliness.

But this ain’t no tragedy. Not yet. I’ve got a mixtape brewing that’ll make the Devil himself tip his hat, a junior year thesis on "Post-Mortem Oral Traditions in Rural Communities," and a standing Thursday night gig at the campus radio station’s "Horror Hour."

And if anyone asks? Tell ‘em Blacktop Bessie’s just getting warmed up.

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