Trepidation

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Could be anything inside – a murder victim, some old lady who died in her sleep, a kid too young to open the door. Whatever it was stank enough to have the neighbors complaining.

He pounded on the door.

“Open up!”

She did. Python in one hand, rotten mice in the other. That’s how Officer Johansen met Marley Dunbarough.

Edited 9/25 7:49am: I should have said sooner. Officer Johansen and Marley Dunbarough are characters from a book I currently have in for consideration at Berkley. The title is Zackly Right. It’s a wild book, and only gets wilder as it goes. I sincerely hope some day I will be able to offer it to you. Until it’s published, glimpses like this are all you’ll see.