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Hollow Grim can find no peace.A letter in his pocket continues to remind him of a measure he’s left undone and a wrong done he can’t live with.He has his predator in his sights, and certainty in his instincts, but knows his lack of evidence won’t allow him to act in his normal definitive manner.The episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions.Visit patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects.Please stick around after the story for some light business. Hosted

Nevada 1897All Hollow Grim wants out of life is quiet.He’s happiest in the moments of peace he finds in his quiet postal office, sorting the mail for Progress Township.The quiet is stirred from time to time, when he’s called to his occasional role as a fugitive hunter for the US Marshal.Hollow Grim is a killer.He is the killer this state needs.He is methodical, precise and emotionless in his approach to the predators he is tasked to hunt.His effectiveness is sharpened in his detachment.He is going

Hollow Grim, part time marksman manhunter for the US Marshal, part time postal clerk in Progress Township in Northern Nevada, is on trial for murder.His killshot was fired across the townsquare in broad daylight in front of dozens of onlookers, neighbors and friends.The prosecution has built an air tight case that seems to have all but convinced the old judge presiding.The verdict seems imminent and the gallery seems prepared to provide the noose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

It’s the dying days of the Nineteenth Century, Northern Nevada.The Postal Clerk of Progress Township, Nevada, and sometimes agent fugitive hunter for the US Marshal Service, Hollow Grim, is on trial for murder.The entire township was gathered at the steps of the chapel as Sunday funeral service parishioners started the second verse of Amazing Grace, when Hollow Grim’s rifle shot cut through the high noon sky and killed John Butler, in front of his friends and neighbors.The prosecution’s case is

Nevada, 1896.Hollow Grim is a killer.He’s the kind of killer Nevada needs.Some predators will only be a threat to the civilized herd.They’ve proven themselves unworthy of a place above the desert dirt.Hollow hunts them as an occasional marksman contractor for the US Marshal.When he’s not on a fugitive’s trail or setting aim with his notorious rifle, Hollow lives a quiet life as the Postal Clerk for Progress Township, sorting the correspondence from the changing country and hoping the Marshal won’t