“Get your dirty boots off my desk,” Frank snarled. He stared hard at the other man.
Roy put out his hands. “Easy, man, easy …”
Roy’s boots thumped down ...
Katherine Burnette's work has appeared in Sky Island Journal, Red Fez and Flying South. Her 2021 debut novel, Judge's Waltz, won a Feathered Quill and a Pinnacle award. She graduated with a B.A. and a J.D. degree from Wake Forest University and with an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Burnette lives in Oxford, North Carolina and is at work on her second novel. Her author page is katherineburnetteauthor.com