The Walton family keeps the worst stuff at the back, the quarry of occasional hunters, poachers and road rage. It found its way into my clothes, soaked through the skin like maggots in a dead thing and up my nose where a graveyard of bones still thick with butchered flesh haunted my thoughts. Obvious in a way, still nothing like the sanitized version you find in your average grocery store meat counter. I can still smell the market at Mateo Bluff, thick with the rank odor of slaughter. Our senses collect more memories than we can ever write down, from childhood to a millisecond ago, sight, sound, taste and aroma, breathtaking moments, the protracted waits and the brutality of tragedy. CONTENTSĬhapter 8 - Swappers, Swingers and Isolation

Library of Congress Control Number is available and on file with the publisherĭedicated to those who fight for change and strive to make a difference, and to the woman who lived the nightmare and features heavy in my dreams. Rusty & Winnie| for Bulldog Publications, Est.1980 Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. 1980Īn imprint of Tough Tribe Publishing, New York.

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Deep and Dirty by Douglas Dell