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    The Purification of Jim Barnes
    The Purification of Jim Barnes
    The Purification of Jim Barnes
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    The Purification of Jim Barnes

    By Troy D. Smith

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    U.S. Marine Jim Barnes survived Vietnam, and has returned home to the Maricopa Indian Reservation... but can he survive the memories that haunt him? His grandfather has a solution, if Jim is willing to listen to him, and trust the old ways...

    A short story by Troy D. Smith, winner of the Peacemaker and Spur Awards.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCane Hollow Press
    Release dateMay 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301594276
    The Purification of Jim Barnes
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    Troy D. Smith

    Born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee, Mr. Smith has loved books even before he could read them. In 1995 his first short story was accepted by Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he has been published in magazines since then on a fairly regular basis. Author of numerous award winning short stories and novels, Troy is currently a Doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Illinois. He says, "I don't write about things that happen to people—I write about people that things happen to."

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      The Purification of Jim Barnes - Troy D. Smith

      THE PURIFICATION OF JIM BARNES

      By Troy D. Smith

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Wolf Pass Books

      THE PURIFICATION OF JIM BARNES

      Copyright © 2001 by Troy D. Smith

      Originally published in American West, Forge Books

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously

      THE PURIFICATION OF JIM BARNES

      Troy D. Smith

      Jim Barnes stepped off the Freedom Bird and walked into the World. Uncle Ray stood waiting for him, eyes squinting into the Arizona sun and a cigarette dangling from his lips.

      Glad you made it, Uncle Ray said, and Jim nodded.

      Other words had begun to form in Ray’s throat, but they could not make the journey through his lips and into the air. He stared uncertainly at Jim, and Jim could read the confusion in his uncle’s face. Uncle Ray did not recognize him, not entirely -he sensed that the nephew he had helped raise was different, somehow. Jim had what grunts called the thousand yard stare. His eyes focused into the distance, into the future -not because it held out promise of better things, but simply because it was not the present.

      Through all those maddened months in

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