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    The Collector
    The Collector
    The Collector
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    The Collector

    By DB Jackson

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    Calvin Bonner and his wife lose a newborn child the same year they lose their cattle to a great freeze-up. Destitute and out of options, he turns to robbery. At first, just wayward travelers on a lonely highway— and then he graduates to trains, and finally a bank.
    The bank job provides him with enough money to quit his life of crime, but fate has more in store for him until he eventually has to come to terms with his wrongdoings in a plot twist we do not see coming.
    It’s a raw and redemptive story of the good and the bad of human nature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDB Jackson
    Release dateApr 3, 2019
    ISBN9780463560303
    The Collector
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    DB Jackson

    Award winning novelist and screenwriter.

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      The Collector - DB Jackson

      THE COLLECTOR

      A Short Story

      Copyright 2019 DB Jackson

      Published by DB Jackson at Smashwords

      ISBN 978-0-463-56030-3

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      WIND RIVER INCIDENT – A novel. The reissue version of the award winning novel, THEY GOOD HORSES. This book has been revised to follow the feature film adaptation.

      HALF PAST NINE – A short story and the inspiration for a feature film of the same name.

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      THE BUFFALO RUNNERS – A short story.

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      The snow came, and with it the cold and the death that followed.

      HE IS A COLLECTOR OF BONES. Draped in rags, feet bound in animal hides, he hobbles about on a forked crutch hewn from the notch of

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