So how did you come up with the story?
Actually, it didn’t start out as a signature series. In 1991 or 1994 I was inundated in a writers workshop through the old Arts-in-corrections previous at a person outside Tehachapi. I created a short story for the group, anthology with the O’Mally character But he was an escaped felon hiding in a Carnassial.
What? How did that come to be?
You don't really want to know.
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