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    Unsafe, Unsound
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    Unsafe, Unsound

    By Kate Macleod

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    Ethan and his family live on the outskirts of town, between civilization and the total lack of it. Ma always keeps the shotgun handy.

    Ethan's brother announces a nighttime visitor as "a dead man coming up the road". The man surely looks halfway to death, but Ethan fears his brother, touched in the head after a long illness, sees something else. Something more.

    Then the pistol on the man's belt catches Ethan's eye. A weapon of eerie, unearthly beauty, meant for more than the mere killing of outlaws. What trouble follows a man with a weapon like that?

    "Unsafe, Unsound", a short story for fans of western weird fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRatatoskr Press
    Release dateJun 27, 2017
    ISBN9781946552440
    Unsafe, Unsound
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    Kate Macleod

    Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.

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      Unsafe, Unsound - Kate Macleod

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      UNSAFE, UNSOUND

      KATE MACLEOD

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      UNSAFE, UNSOUND

      Ethan

      There’s a dead man coming up the road.

      I looked up from my grandfather's old copy of Euclid's Elements and blinked away a momentary blindness. It had grown dark while I was reading and Ma had placed a lamp on the table beside me without my even noticing it. Now I couldn't see outside of the small circle of its light. It took a few blinks before I could make out Jacob across the room, ghost-like in his flowing white nightshirt standing at the moon-bright window.

      From town or from out? Ma asked, setting aside the pair of my father's pants she had been hemming up to my size. After Jacob's growth spurt it was time for me to hand down my own things and make do with my father's, even though they were far too big for me.

      Out, Jacob said. A long ways, I think.

      What did Jacob mean, a dead man? He said such odd things, like the delirium of his recent

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