An Indian caught the attention, especially a woman with different-colored eyes. “Like a heeler,” she said. The woman had paid cash to gas two vehicles. The clerk pulled the receipt. They’d been printed at eight twenty-eight, nearly thirty minutes ago. Sean went for the moon, asking if the woman m...
The doctor he’d spoken with had brought his fingertips together as if in tentative prayer, awarded Stranahan his professional smile, spoken briefly, and left. Stranahan had followed suit. He had to attend to Killer and needed a drink, though not in that order. At the inn, Doris brought Stranahan ...
The cabin was on federal land, and the National Park Service had taken over the hundred-year lease, as there was a housing shortage inside the park. A summer place, uninsulated, but Katie had replaced the barrel stove with an efficient woodstove and routed vents to the bathroom and bedroom. They ...
Stranahan trailed him as he walked with the veterinarian the length of the stables. Watt said, “Phew,” doffing his railroader’s cap and wiping it over his brow, shook hands with the older man, whose crow’s feet made a pattern like a river delta at each temple, and then, after the vet had driven a...