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    Incident at Lonely Rocks
    Incident at Lonely Rocks
    Incident at Lonely Rocks
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    Incident at Lonely Rocks

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    Oscar cleans portable toilets for a living. He loves the job—it takes him to beautiful isolated places, like the Lonely Rocks Wayside on the Oregon Coast.

    Nothing really grosses him out either—until he discovers the body, slashed to death, with a knife still in the chest.

    When he also sees a break in the guardrail above the ocean, a second car, and a ruined bicycle, Oscar realizes his troubles have just begun.

    "Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark."

    —The London Times

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateSep 6, 2017
    ISBN9781386124818
    Incident at Lonely Rocks
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. She publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov's Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.   

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      Incident at Lonely Rocks - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Incident at Lonely Rocks

      INCIDENT AT LONELY ROCKS

      KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

      WMG Publishing, Inc.

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      Incident at Lonely Rocks

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      About the Author

      INCIDENT AT LONELY ROCKS

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Winter on the Oregon beaches was unlike winter anywhere else. Winter on the beach meant fifty-degree temperatures, and the occasional rain. The surf was high, but the beaches were empty—tourists spent their vacation dollars on Maui or the Virgin Islands or even Las Vegas in December.

      But Oscar loved the beach. And he loved the fact that his route took him there every single week.

      Mondays were his beach day. He drove from the warehouse, which was on a side road exactly between Seavy Village and Anchor Bay, and headed north. His first stop was always at the Lonely Rocks Wayside, and he’d always think it was incredibly well named.

      Not once had he ever seen a car parked there, not once had he watched a tourist walk along the beach. When he arrived, there was only him, the crumbling parking lot, and the POTS portable toilet, which was as close to the highway as he could get it.

      He would pull up alongside the toilet, get out his scrubber and bucket, then put on his gloves. He’d keep the ignition on—he had to; the hose wouldn’t work without it—and then he’d get out. He’d open the toilet’s door, stick the hose through the hole, and let the machine suck the waste into the large container at the back of his truck.

      He also had another portable toilet strapped into the back in case he had to switch one out or he got called to a new job. Usually that toilet remained there for most of the week.

      Then, when he finished vacuuming out the waste, he scrubbed the interior, and added new chemicals in the portable toilet’s storage container. He had become a fast cleaner, and a precise one. His motto was simple: he wanted moms and grandmoms to comfortably use his toilets.

      He particularly liked the Lonely Rocks Wayside. It had been built in the 1950s as a large turnout where tourists could watch the waves. Over

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