A finalist for the 2017 and 2018 Screencraft Short Story Award. Life could be a little tough for the Carbon County Sheriff a hundred years ago. Drunks, crazy pedophiles, and grizzly bears were all just part of a normal day. Read The Purification in the mystery anthology And All Our Yesterdays, from Darkhouse Books, available in print and Kindle from Amazon. It is also featured in Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face – And Other Tales of Men in Pain.