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    Stone Dead
    Stone Dead
    Stone Dead
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    Stone Dead

    By Stefon Mears

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    Stone and Karlsson. Partners in crime, who only rob the Mob. Their last job went wrong. Eyeball-witness wrong.

    They argue over fault in the back of a bar. Smith and Wesson on the table between them.

    Only one of them would live to see the dawn.

    "Stone Dead" a crime short story featuring fast talk and brutal action in a thrilling criminal underground setting. From Stefon Mears, author of Sudden Death and With a Broken Sword.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateJul 15, 2017
    ISBN9781386220213
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      The Smith and Wesson governor lay on the faded green felt between us. Two pounds of black scandium alloy revolver, with a barrel so short it looked sawn off in the yellow light of the cheap

      hanging

      lamp

      .

      I looked at the gun. Karlsson looked

      at

      me

      .

      He was bigger than me, and that was saying something. I played basketball and football in the two years I’d scraped by at U. of M. Not that I ever made the starting lineup. But Karlsson, he still had twenty pounds on me easy, all of it muscle, and probably two or three inches of reach concealed inside his silk suit. His nose was flat enough that it had to have been broken three or four times.

      Mine was only broken once. Gave me a snub-nosed look. Like the pistol.

      We were in the back room of Eddie’s place. Chilly on a December night even through

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