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    Jehovah's Key Witness
    Jehovah's Key Witness
    Jehovah's Key Witness
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    Jehovah's Key Witness

    By Alex Wilson

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    New neighbors moved in down the road from Josh and Dana's home in Maine...and, they're not nice. What do these tattooed ex-cons have in mind? Josh and Dana cross paths with them with scary consequences. Will they lose their home again? Will 'magic underwear' locate Dana in time?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Wilson
    Release dateNov 7, 2011
    ISBN9781465861443
    Jehovah's Key Witness
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    Alex Wilson

    At 72, Alex's wife said 'Why not try writing?' Within 4 months he had six novellas on Smashwords and now, a couple of years later, 18. Obviously there was stuff lurking in there waiting to be said. Alex's wife is also his muse and editor, and a good one. They live in St. Petersburg, FL where there is a surprising amount of writerly activity.

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      Jehovah's Key Witness - Alex Wilson

      Trouble in the Valley

      A novella by Alex and Barbara Wilson

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Alex Wilson

      Discover other titles by Alex Wilson at www.wilsonwritings.com

      Cover illustration by Eileen Henderson

      Dog walking can be a contemplative exercise. If the dog is on a leash or just likes to stay close, it/he/she sets the pace and the dog walker’s job is to keep the dog company and, maybe in town, to clean up after it. In this case, the dog is a wonderful old girl dog, Cindy, a mellow yellow lab owned by some friends of Josh and Dana. When the Williams discussed taking a vacation and were asking for kennel recommendations, Josh offered to keep Cindy for three or four weeks. After all, Josh and Dana lived in a commodious log home in the woods and Cindy had long since lost her wander lust and was a stay-at-home, human-loving animal. And, it was a time in their work cycles that allowed both Josh, a corporate trouble shooter/consultant, and Dana, a history professor and researcher at nearby Bowdoin College, to be home together for most of the summer.

      Josh had never had a dog of his own. As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn’t space or money for a dog. Besides, his alcoholic father would probably have abused it and, after his (timely) death, his single mom could barely keep a roof over their heads. In the Marine Corps he was on the move enough to make dog care impractical. Oh, there were always dogs being kept by somebody or another at the base camps in Iraq and Afghanistan but, as a long range immersion sniper, he and his partner, Ramsen ‘The Ram’ Hathaway, were in the field more than in the base camp. So, he had the opportunity to play with the base dogs on those rare instances when he was between assignments and enjoyed their company but, here in Maine, where it would have been an ideal life for a dog, Josh and Dana were too often off on their assignments.

      Anyhow, Josh liked having Cindy around and had fleeting moments of thinking of getting a full-time dog. But, his practical side would intervene on those thoughts with the realization that autumn would bring more business activity and need for unexpected trips. He would enjoy dogdom as a temporary pleasure.

      Actually, Josh didn’t absolutely have to walk Cindy at all. She had the surrounding woods in which to do her business. But, he rationalized that she needed the exercise. So, off they would go down the rough road that ran past their house for three quarters of a mile or so ending at the Findlay’s place where the hills started getting steep and suitable housing sites were scarce. This was an unpaved county road that ran past a few houses before Josh’s ten acres mostly situated on a hillside with his rather luxurious hand built log home perched up a rise with additional raw woods behind. Then the road had a half mile or so of woods on either side with no homes before getting to the old Morgan place, vacant for several years since Mr. Morgan’s passing.

      Sometimes Josh and Cindy would go left out of their driveway towards the main road and sometimes they would go right towards the dead end at Findlay’s. On their walks up towards Findlay’s, Josh noted that someone had moved into the Morgan place. There were cars and the front door was standing open. On one of their walks past Morgan’s, there was quite a gathering of old cars and pickup trucks, none of recent vintage, and a gathering of rough looking men. Josh waved as he went by but the men did not return the wave and looked intently at him with what, even at the distance of 60 yards or so, Josh perceived as hostility.

      The next time Josh and Cindy passed that way, he saw one man walking around the corner of the house and decided to make a neighborly visit. He opened the cattle gate on the opening in the barbed wire fence and began to walk up the low rise towards the house.

      ‘Whoa, there, mister. Where you think you’re goin’?’

      ‘Hey. I’m your neighbor from down the road. Just stopping by to welcome you to the neighborhood. I’m’… said Josh with his hand out.

      ‘I think you and your dog better get back down on the road and get

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