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Thanksgiving Fiction Special: The Thirty-Seven Marble Steps

It Could Happen Here

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Big John's Story of the Woman Who Stole Animal Collars

A Bolivian woman stole pets and livestock, anything with fur or feathers that was small enough to fit into her sack. Big John heard a wailing a keening from within the cabin where she kept animals. The sheriff rounded up his posse and headed into the forest ready to find the woman and bring her to justice. But they found nothing else besides a hot barley soup on the stove,. No bones, no midden, no trapdoor, no basement at all. They marched the woman back to the sheriff's office and locked her in the town's one holding cell.

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