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Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Ken McElroy was pure-D meanness.
Hundreds of stories circulated in Skidmore, Missouri. All true. He packed a shotgun. You didn’t say no to him, or he’d burn down your house or kill your dog.
Marshall Dunbar was so scared of McElroy he quit and got a job at a cable company.
One summer night, Daddy told Mama, “That town bully needs killin’.”
On a July afternoon in 1981, some folks crowded around McElroy’s truck outside a tavern. Two gunshots. Blam! Goodbye, Bully.
For forty years, the FBI has tried to solve his murder but so far, ain’t nobody seen nothin’.
- When I say “historical fiction”, I’m talking about the narrator. The rest is chillingly true. For more info CLICK HERE.