Mark Sanders
Chapter 31: Broken
Blogtober 2020 Day 31 Entry Phin and Murphy arrived as expected at mid-morning the next day. They saw their rescue party, along with...
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Oct 30, 20201 min read
Chapter 30: Burn
Blogtober 2020 Day 30 Entry Gray saw the smoke before he could see the bridge or the fire, and by the time it came into view, all the...
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Oct 29, 20201 min read
Chapter 29: Jump
Blogtober 2020 Day 29 Entry “They will be here soon,” Storm said. “Light the fire and jump.” The two Osage men who had ridden ahead of...
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Oct 28, 20201 min read
Chapter 28: Chase
Blogtober 2020 Day 28 Entry Black Oak turned back in his saddle to see whether the marshal's wagon had closed the distance between them....
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Oct 27, 20201 min read
Chapter 27: Desert
Blogtober 2020 Day 27 Entry Deputy James Gray joined the Kansas Marshalls after six years of arresting drunks and whores in downtown...
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Oct 26, 20201 min read
Chapter 26: Candle
Blogtober 2020 Day 26 Entry Murphy slept fitfully, waking up time and time again with a jolt, scanning the landscape for any sign of the...
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Oct 25, 20201 min read
Chapter 25: Tower
Blogtober 2020 Day 25 Entry The westward road led them into a crossroads six-building village called Sun City, where Phin and Murphy...
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Oct 24, 20201 min read
Chapter 24: Dawn
Blogtober 2020 Day 24 Entry The lawmen awoke at dawn and followed the trail into Winfield. They entered the general store. “Can I help...
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Oct 23, 20201 min read
Chapter 23: Flight
Blogtober 2020 Day 23 Entry Their flight from the hangman’s noose took them west across southern Kansas. They stayed on the main road,...
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Oct 22, 20201 min read
Chapter 22: Collide
Blogtober 2020 Day 22 Entry The lawmen had no way of knowing that the stolen cash had $1,000 less than what Phin and Murphy took from the...
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Oct 21, 20201 min read
Chapter 21: Mask
Blogtober 2020 Day 21 Entry The spot for the ambush was exactly as Storm had described it, a sharp bend left with a thicket of trees on...
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Oct 20, 20201 min read
Chapter 20: Thunder
Blogtober 2020 Day 20 Entry Phin, who had been arrested more times than he could remember since he was ten years old, fell asleep as the...
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Oct 19, 20201 min read
Chapter 19: Church
Blogtober 2020 Day 19 Entry Storm drove the wagon north. Two braves sat in the back appearing to guard Phin and Murphy, but in reality,...
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Oct 18, 20201 min read
Chapter 18: Mirror
Blogtober 2020 Day 17 Post Meadow said goodbye the next morning. She only had one day to get what she needed for her plan to save her...
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Oct 18, 20201 min read
Chapter 17: Necklace
Blogtober 2020 Day 17 Post The Kansas posse arrived ten days later. Storm rode out with four other braves to meet them. The white men...
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Oct 16, 20201 min read
Chapter 16: Gift
Blogtober 2020 Day 16 Entry Two weeks later, Murphy and Meadow sat together and watched as Phin played a game with a group of Osage boys....
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Oct 15, 20201 min read
Chapter 15: Flower
Blogtober 2020 Day 15 Entry The boys were given a small tent to share on the edge of the village. They awoke the next day to find Osage...
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Oct 14, 20201 min read
Chapter 14: Time
Blogtober 2020 Day 14 Entry "We don’t deserve your help,” Murphy said. “But you already helped us. We would’ve died on the road if you...
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Oct 13, 20201 min read
Chapter 13: Vision
Blogtober 2020 Day 13 Entry Meadow’s father entered the smoke lodge. He wasn’t tall, but he wore a long leather coat embroidered with...
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Oct 12, 20201 min read
Chapter 12: Dance
Blogtober 2020 Day 12 Entry Meadow came back to the tent some indeterminate time later; both boys had lost all sense of time since their...
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