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Luther slammed the brown leatherbound book shut and slid it away to the center of the dining room table. He chewed his left thumbnail as his eyes darted around the dimly lit room, his blood-stained head thumping as it looked around like a weathervane in a twister. Perry County was mighty lonely and mostly farmland. Folks were far enough apart that it took Luther ten minutes to drive his Model T to the nearest neighbor. It was a drive he might have made if his wife Glenda and daughter Nell hadn’t taken it to his mother in-laws a County over. ...
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