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Weekly Contest #341
Time may heal all wounds, but sometimes fate has to push it along. Police Chief Sam Webster oversaw a small police department in a quiet, obscure Missouri town sitting along the Mississippi River, surrounded by plenty of small lakes and streams. Before that, he was a homicide detective, an undercover officer, and a SWAT commander for large metropolitan city police departments. He was also burned out by the manic and relentless pace, the constant exposure to humanity’s depravity, and the grinding wheel of big-city politics. He felt parched an...
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