Not This Town

A horrifying animal attack turns into an examination of rural life.

"Admit it. You want to jump to the part about Bubba tearing into Child, who still has no identifiable name. This story isn't about Child; it's about the town and its assumptions. But since I cannot narrate the story of the assuming town without touching on what it is they assumed upon, I will tell you the parts of the Bubba/Child story that will elucidate they and their assumings."

A Murder in Waurika

Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.

  1. A Bend in the River

    How the body of 16-year-old Heather Rich ended up in Belknap Creek and how the cops found the boys who put it there.

  2. A Question of Mercy

    [sub req'd] More than fifteen years after prosecuting Rich's killers, a district attorney has second thoughts about one of the defendants.