All Comments on 'The Photo Shop Ch. 52'

The author is correct; this series should be read from the beginning in order to understand the plot and to appreciate the characters. This chapter is well-written, but disappointingly rather too short.

I think you mean "shotgun" houses in NOLA. There are such things as cannonball houses in the southern US, but a quick search suggests that term applies to historic houses that were struck by cannonballs. Shotgun houses are "a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about 12 feet wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house." The joke was that you could shoot a shotgun at the front door and have the bullets go out the back door. Cannonball would obviously do the same, but that isn't the common term for shotgun architecture in the southern US. Who drags around a cannon to take on the neighbors?

Hello anonymous, let me first say I don't understand why you reply anonymously as your remark is very good. I had a discussion about this subject with my editor but the cannonball is what I heard and remember from my visit to Bew Orleans many years ago and when we rented a historical building that was described as a cannonball house to us.