Tag: grafton edgefield

• BLOODHOUND LAW

  The steamboat Yellowstone sat at the dock. The new boat for the American Fur Company was due to depart up the Mississippi later that day. Grafton Edgefield looked out between wooden planks. He hadn’t eaten since he’d arrived in St. Louis three days ago. His clothes were in pieces, his bare feet shredded. He’d avoided the slave…

  Iain Kelly

  04/03/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

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