Judging
by what I see on the social networks I am part of, a lot of authors these days
reserve Sundays for samples of their works. While the title is not locked in my
mind just yet, this story is going to be part of the new book featuring new and
previously published stories. Hopefully this small sample will pique your
interest.
Burdens
“Sheriff?”
The
radio constantly crackled with annoying background static but the voice of the
day dispatcher, Sue Ellen, broke through. Her being the sister of the mayor
should have meant a quick approval of my budgetary request for new radios, but
it hadn’t.
“Go
ahead, Sue Ellen.”
“Miss
Graves down at the High School just called in and told me to tell you it has
been exactly thirty-three minutes since she called the first time and she wants
to know when, exactly, you will be
there .”
Sheriff
Max Preston suppressed a curse and shook his head. Graves was a human
abomination, plain and simple, and would do the world a favor if she could find
an open pit to Hell and fall in. Every week she came up with another hoop for
him to jump through and there was nothing he could do to avoid the damn things.
Not that he could say any of that on the radio for everyone in the county to
hear on their scanners. Sue Ellen, having
all the brains and the only working moral compass in her family, waited for him
to respond.
“I
am headed there now, Dispatch.”
Sue
Ellen acknowledged and the radio went back to its usual static- filled self. Preston
drove down Main Street, passing through the stoplight at each end and then
headed out on the narrow two-lane road that went by the old Thompson place
south of town and the nearby church Thompson had built in an effort to save his
immortal soul. If half the legendary exploits were true, no church on God’s
green earth could have saved him.....
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
2 comments:
I like this! Of course we're assuming that the high school has asked him to come for some trivial reason, and that he'll find there is some REALLY important thing going on instead. . . .
Thank you.....time will tell. :))
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