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Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors: a novel of accidental discharge
Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors a novel of accidental discharge Author:Jonathan DiMarco An hour past midnight, "nice young man" Wayne Milton walks out of his second-shift office and into unplanned, unwanted combat with a fevered stranger. Seconds later, the stranger lies dead -- and hanging from Wayne's hand is a gun, not his own, smoke wreathing its steel muzzle. Nerves scrambled and heart knocking, Wayne stares at the body sprawl... more »ed before him. He cannot move, cannot comprehend. Then the shriek of an approaching siren pierces his trance, and on instinct he flees into shadow, legs and mind churning witlessly. The cold October night closes around him. What fortune will the new day bring? As Wayne skulks westward in fear and shame, ducking the law while striving to maintain sanity, civility, and basic hygiene, the ricochet from his violent encounter rattles the lives of those he loves, those he doesn't much mind, and those he'd do well to avoid...« less