title: Storylandia Issue 14: Dead End
author:  Chad Denton 
description: Chad Denton is a writer and historian with a penchant for deviants and underdogs. Besides Dead End, he has also written The War on Sex: From the Torah to Victoria, which will be released in the Fall of 2014. He currently lives in Columbia, Missouri where he is finishing a doctorate in History.
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  **Death Beyond the Go-Thru**
  
   **A Miles Standish Rice Mystery**
  
   **Baynard Kenrick**
  
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  TO
  
  MARTIN J. E. HOBAN
  
   _who could write a book_
  
   _about cypress mills himself;_
  
   _and who is responsible for any inaccuracies_
  
   _which may appear in this story_.
  
  Part One
  
  Chapter I
  
  Early on Sunday morning, April tenth, six men stood on the end of the pier at
  Drenner, Florida, the site of a large cypress mill. The Hawkeye, combination
  pleasure boat and service launch for the Drenner Cypress Company, bobbed
  gently below them, moved by the tide of Number Four Channel.
  
  Arnold Drenner, the gentle-spoken owner of the mill, was going fishing with
  his friend Dr Kellogg from Cypress Keys, a small fishing community built o