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    Dead Man's Salute
    Dead Man's Salute
    Dead Man's Salute
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    Dead Man's Salute

    By Steve Vernon

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    "Leave Luther's body right where we flung it," Bates said. "You aren't burying anyone today."

    After Sally Mae Webster phoned me up to tell me that my Korean War buddy Luther Webster had been shot and killed by the Bates brothers I knew that I wasn't going to stop until I had righted that wrong.

    I wonder just how many graves I was going to have to dig today.

    WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STEVE VERNON

    "The genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." –Edward Lee, author of FLESH GOTHIC and CITY INFERNAL

    "If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." - Bookgasm

    "Steve Vernon is something of an anomaly in the world of horror literature. He's one of the freshest new voices in the genre although his career has spanned twenty years. Writing with a rare swagger and confidence, Steve Vernon can lead his readers through an entire gamut of emotions from outright fear and repulsion to pity and laughter." - Cemetery Dance

    "Armed with a bizarre sense of humor, a huge amount of originality, a flair for taking risks and a strong grasp of characterization - Steve's got the chops for sure." - Dark Discoveries

    "Steve Vernon was born to write. He's the real deal and we're lucky to have him." - Richard Chizmar

    My Mom thinks I'm pretty cool, too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Vernon
    Release dateJul 2, 2018
    ISBN9780463151341
    Dead Man's Salute
    Author

    Steve Vernon

    Everybody always wants a peek at the man behind the curtain. They all want to see just exactly what makes an author tick.Which ticks me off just a little bit - but what good is a lifetime if you can't ride out the peeve and ill-feeling and grin through it all. Hi! I am Steve Vernon and I'd love to scare you. Along the way I'll try to entertain you and I guarantee a giggle as well.If you want to picture me just think of that old dude at the campfire spinning out ghost stories and weird adventures and the grand epic saga of how Thud the Second stepped out of his cave with nothing more than a rock in his fist and slew the mighty saber-toothed tiger.If I listed all of the books I've written I'd most likely bore you - and I am allergic to boring so I will not bore you any further. Go and read some of my books. I promise I sound a whole lot better in print than in real life. Heck, I'll even brush my teeth and comb my hair if you think that will help any.For more up-to-date info please follow my blog at:http://stevevernonstoryteller.wordpress.com/And follow me at Twitter:@StephenVernonyours in storytelling,Steve Vernon

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      Dead Man's Salute - Steve Vernon

      Dead

      Man’s

      Salute

      by

      Steve Vernon

      Stark Raven Press

      Smashwords Edition

      Dead Man’s Salute

      Sally Mae had married Luther Webster twenty-eight years ago and now she was washing his best clothes for his funeral.

      He shouldn’t ought to have done it, Sally Mae Webster told me as she fished Luther Webster’s tired blue denim shirt out of the galvanized soaking tub.

      She rinsed, stirred and boiled Luther’s clothes in the tub over the fire. She laid the clothes over a wooden bench and beat on them with the flat of her battling stick, pounding the dirt and soap out of the clothes. Washing by hand was that kind of work – tedious, slow and hard – but not everyone in the world could afford their own washing machine.

      The whole time Sally Mae told me how her husband and my best friend, Luther Webster, had stood up against the Bates brothers.

      Them Bates boys stole our horse, she said. They burned down the stall.

      Are you sure it was them? I asked.

      We know they did it, she answered. "They were stupid enough to leave a red hunting cap with the name JUNIOR BATES scrawled on the lining in black

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