Roadkill Horror Story

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laugh themselves sick. The mayor finally settled on The Highway Sanitation and Animal Removal Patrol.
When Richard posted the job opening on the MorneauVille police station's bulletin board, the next morning only one man applied. Until that day Jeff's primary responsibility around the station house had been a janitor, cleaning up the mayor bathroom.

During those six months Jeff had redefined the boundaries of his duties as originally envisioned by the sheriff, although he never bothered to inform Richard of this. After the first week he requisitioned himself a cow catcher like those found on the front of old railway trains. He claimed the Chevy's grill had suffered damage when a deer had crossed the pickup's path. The impact had been so big that part of the animal's dripping hind leg had lodged in the grillwork.

Jeff chose not to inform the sheriff that he had chased the fleeing creature a good quarter mile before catching up with it. Richard took one look at the ruined ...

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flashlight's beam steady on it, but he could not even locate a face beneath the fur. The creature did not move.

He turned to the truck and pulled out the large shovel from the cab. He slid it under the carcass, leaving a path of blood as he dragged the shovel back to the pickup. Getting the heavy animal into the back of the truck was no problem. The Mayor had added a lift to the pickup because it made the job more convenient.

He kept the heavily bleeding creature separate from the two dead dogs and six road kill racoons and rabbits in the back of the pickup. He again flashed the light on his kill for a moment it looked as if he saw the creature move, like maybe the thing ...

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