Tag: revenge
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This Land of the Strange by Math Bird
Listen to this story on the podcast. Jernegan knew they’d come. He’d left enough clues for them to find him. Besides, Swain wanted him dead, so it was only a matter of time. Yet the moment he stepped off the bus and sniffed the air, such thoughts left, abandoning him to the smell of the…
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The Farm by Kevin R. Doyle
Listen to this story on the podcast. Sometimes a place takes on a life—or a death—of its own. From the distance, the farm looked almost invisible. Just a slightly uneven line of lighter tan against the earth tones of the mountains. Only as I approached it, my rental car bumping and lurching over the rough…
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Mockingbird Rail Yard Blues by Jim Downer
“For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, must suffer.” — Horace I dug the book I was reading out from under a stack of college paperwork that sat on my desk. After a week of celebrating my high school graduation I just didn’t have the drive to dig in to all of that…