False River
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Stinson Carter. False River
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten. Cam’s knuckles crack loudly against the old shutters, and a dog barks and paws at the inside of the door
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
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They had to stand in line for hours on a parade ground in the rain, wearing just their skivvy shirts and trousers. There were only a dozen dress jackets and caps for a thousand worn out boys, neither the few nor the proud. They’d each slip into a jacket warmed by the grunts before them, then quickly hand it off after steeling their faces for a ration of Kodachrome. They don’t tell you to smile and they don’t offer retakes for blinked eyes. Cam reckoned that’s why so many dead kids have lousy pictures on the evening news.
Cam had lined up a short-term bed through a guy in his platoon whose mother wanted him out of the Marines. The night before Okinawa he got USMC tattooed on his arm and Cam got an address scribbled on his palm.
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“You’re from South Highlands, too, man.”
“His momma sure picked a good doorstep to leave him on,” says Mary Beth.
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