Phil Murray

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“Keystone Cop” by Phil Murray

Submitted to Contest #231

The shop bell tinkled. The ripped flyscreen door slammed shut. A besuited, professional woman in her mid-forties, hair pulled tightly back in a bun, scanned the ramshackle hut that masqueraded as the local store. ‘G’day Sunshine,’ the barefoot owner chuckled. This was not a friendly, country salutation from the local shopkeeper. No, this was an appellation from a distant, but not forgotten, past. Behind a well-worn counter stood a badly-worn body; emaciated, capped by a mass of grey whiskers and untamed, dreadlock hair. Speaking re...

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