Ballistics Reports
by Henry Rifle
Price: $1.99 USD. 9460 words.
Published by Skywater Publishing Co. on September 5, 2011. .
The American poet Henry Rifle is dead. You could remember him as the guy who fell in a hail of bullets launched his way by a Mexican firing squad. Or you could remember him for his poems and the charitable work he liked to tell people he did. Undoubtedly, he would prefer the latter. He might especially appreciate it if you remembered him for his last collection of poems — Ballistics Report.
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