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About the Author: Michael Bracken is the author of several books and more than 1,300 short stories, including crime fiction published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, and The Best American Mystery Stories.
Sheriff Sherri Fine stood inside the Chicken Junction High School gymnasium, arms folded beneath her breasts, and listened with growing revulsion as Senate candidate Clayton Holms railed against the godless heathens of the opposing party. Two of her deputies, both off duty, were in the audience paying rapt attention. Two others with similar political leanings were cruising the county.
Her radio crackled. “Sheriff?”
She thumbed her radio. “Go ahead.”
“You need to see this,” said Deputy Carl Smith. “We got us a dead body.”
The Senate candidate no longer held Fine’s attention. As she headed for the door, she asked, “Where you at?”
“Devil’s Canyon Creek Road. Twelve miles west of the highway.”
“On my way.”
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