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Thursday, 9:24 a.m.

Stepan Senn looked up at the clear, blue sky of a fall morning. He could hear the crunch of dry grass beneath him as he turned his head slightly. The cool air on his face felt sharp against the hot blood that trickled from the corner of his mouth that was quickly swelling. He tried to sit up, but his body wouldn’t obey. There was a sharp sound of metal on metal. The sound was familiar, but his mind wasn’t working fast enough to recognize his situation. He craned his neck as he struggled to look above him. He saw legs, a hard face looking down at him, and a gun. The shape of the gun seemed to grow large enough to fill all he could see.

Everything began to spin in his mind. He closed his eyes hard against ...

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