title: Hogwash: Collected Stories
author:  Travis Turner 
description: A native of Brightwater, Alabama, Turner teaches writing &amp; literature at multiple universities in the Southeast. His work has been featured in literary publications such as The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Poiesis, The Sucarnochee Review, Tea Leaves LA, Bookkaholic, Red Fez Magazine, The Gambler Magazine, The Manifest Station, Folio and The Flexible Persona as well as the Sumter County Record-Journal and Alabama Outdoor News magazine. When not writing, he enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, cinematography, storytelling and good bourbon.
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  TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG STOCKHOLM •
  ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID PRAGUE • WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND
  
  
  
  
  
  To Shirley Sherman for sharing her love of  the mountains with me.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Gray Turner had just returned from a relaxing trail ride in the Cascade
  Mountains when he sensed an intruder on his property.
  
  
  
  
  
  He hesitated as he brushed down Maverick in the barn. Could be his
  imagination.
  
  
  
  
  
  Squirt’s crazed barking echoed from the cabin a hundred yards away, confirming
  Gray’s suspicions. He tossed the brush aside, slid the Glock from its holster
  and readied himself for whatever waited outside the barn door.
  
  
  
  
  
  Not many folks would risk trespassing on his land. The locals of Millsworth,
  Washington, knew he didn’t welcome surprise guests. Or any guests for that
  matter.
  
  
  
  
  
  He cli