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Mark Sanders

Oct 11, 20231 min read

Chapter 11: Desperate

Blogtober 2023 Murphy escorted Carl to the sheriff's office first-aid station to clean up the cut on his head. The offices sat on the...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 10, 20231 min read

Chapter Ten: Jealous

Blogtober 2023 Carl had settled down considerably once he was deposited in the back of the police cruiser, a ride he was quite familiar...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 9, 20231 min read

Chapter Nine: Handcuffs

Blogtober 2023 Carl, blood from his scalp running down his face like war paint, turned and punched his assailant three times in the face....

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Mark Sanders

Oct 8, 20231 min read

Chapter Eight: Inebriated

Blogtober 2023 The man emerged from the shadows with the mad confidence and utter certainty that only the highly inebriated can muster,...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 7, 20231 min read

Chapter Seven: Embellished

Blogtober 2023 To call the Twelve-Point Tavern a dive bar embellished the reality of its depressing seediness to absurd hyperbole. It was...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 6, 20231 min read

Chapter Six: Lie

Blogtober 2023 Clarkton picked Murphy up from the deputy’s house the next morning. As he stepped onto his front porch, a large...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 5, 20231 min read

Chapter Five: Harbinger

Blogtober 2023 “That’s not possible,” Clarkton said. “Someone didn’t roll up and replace his blood with Pennzoil.” “It’s not oil, either,...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 4, 20231 min read

Chapter Four: Blood

Blogtober 2023 Within the next hour, the narrow county road was reduced to one lane as a variety of emergency vehicles arrived for their...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 3, 20231 min read

Chapter Three: Ethereal

Blogtober 2023 “Is that Iron Mike?” Murphy asked. “Looks like him,” Clarkton said, “but he’s not trying to bite our hands off.” Iron Mike...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 2, 20231 min read

Chapter Two: Opaque

Blogtober 2023 “Joe Don” was Joseph Donwell Clarkton, head of the County Crime Lab. The youngest homicide detective in the history of the...

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Mark Sanders

Oct 1, 20231 min read

Chapter One: Whisper

Blogtober 2023 Deputy Doug Murphy found the 1991 Ford F-150 three miles down County Road 675, a location that the few residents of Butler...

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