Category Archives: Marie Clem

  1. The Death of Skillet Pettaway

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    February 22, 2026 by dleecox

    “You rotten piece of shit. Turn around, I said. If were all the same I’d shoot you in the back, …
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  2. Maggie Tate

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    September 29, 2025 by dleecox

    “Lyle!” Melissa bellowed as she walked back in the bar, “Lyle – if that man comes within a stones throw …
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  3. Salvation

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    September 1, 2025 by dleecox

    The station continued to move about them. Public address calls, murmurs, clops of hard soles, the faint sound of a …
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  4. Correspondence

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    August 31, 2025 by dleecox

    The reverend sat at a small desk in the rectory. A hurricane lamp burned kerosene, illuminating the desk and not …
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  5. On the Mend: An Interlude

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    August 31, 2025 by dleecox

    Murray stood. Even through the head rush he felt his hand throb. The pain becoming increasingly intense. Not knowing what …
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  6. A Commotion

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    August 31, 2025 by dleecox

    Sherriff Tom Biggby snapped his head away from his news paper. Still holding his paper up, feet still up on …
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  7. Un Pied a Terre – A Scene from Marie Clem

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    March 22, 2024 by dleecox

    Late afternoon. Through the distant scream of a million cicadas Murray heard music. A tall, slender dark skinned man stood …
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  8. The Dream – A Scene From Marie Clem

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    March 22, 2024 by dleecox

    Bright flashes woke him. He’d drawn the shades over every single window. The sharp light was still bright enough to …
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  9. In Which Schuster, Marvin, Annie, Toots, and Deely All Die

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    June 16, 2020 by dleecox

    Charles Schuster had a short career in the carnival. By chance he’d lucked up on a horse named Marvin that …
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  10. Prologue – A Scene from Marie Clem

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    June 16, 2020 by dleecox

    William “Wim” Rogers Murray looked to his left to see nowhere, to his right to see nowhere in particular. There …
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