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The shooter.(Story)(Short Story)
The day was clear as young flesh. Each object in the landscape was as sharply defined as a fish in a fish-bowl. The great hills fled into the valleys where rivers began their strange tales of origin. The distant horizon was curved as finely as a young man s eyebrow. The lean man stood on the hillside. This was his country and he knew each undulation, each broken rock as well as he knew the contours of his wife s body. He was a cold man sixty years old, but he was still sharp as a gunsight and, those days, a gunsight was a blade, or a bead set on top of a blade, to be held steady and unwavering in the "V" of the rear sight and held close to the aiming eye. Behind his back ...
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