The Drifter

By MacShayne

Easing is a small village where everybody knows each other. For outsiders, a peacefully and quiet place to be. Boring perhaps. But, Easing also seems to have it's secrets. When one day a drifter arrives for unknown reasons, one of these secrets is threatened to be exposed. Leading to the question, who is Mitch Crowne?

• Language: English
• Publisher: MacShayne
• Release date: Sep 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370850198

MacShayne

MacShayne is the pseudonym of a Frisian born Dutch writer and actor. He mainly writes English romance- or thriller short stories. Apart from short stories, he also writes lyrics and film scripts. Currently, he is also working on his first Dutch novel which will tie-in with some of his romance short stories. As an actor, he has made mutiple appearances in Dutch or Frisian (short)films and series. Apart from writing and acting, he also completed Small Business and Retail Management at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in 2017. His other interests include supporting football club PSV Eindhoven, collecting various CD's and DVD's, sports, history, traveling and reading books. In the future he wants to learn at least three more foreign languages.

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The Drifter

A Mitch Crowne short story

Written by: MacShayne

(2017 re-issue)

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Copyright 2017 by MacShayne. Smashword Edition

Copyright 2014 by MacShayne. Original Edition

Edited by: MacShayne

Coverwork by: MacShayne

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, persons (living or dead) are coincidental. All rights reserved.

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Table of content

Chapter 1: The Case

Chapter 2: The Arrival

Chapter 3: The Affair

Chapter 4: The Suspect

Chapter 5: The Shotgun

Chapter 6: The Savage

Chapter 7: The Specialist

Chapter 8: The Goodbye

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Chapter One:

The Stranger

Easing, March 17 2009

Mitch Crowne ordered a dark coffee. It was past twelve o’clock. The bartender was nervous with a stranger in his bar. Mitch was about 1.85 metres tall and weighed nearby 82 kilo. He was average build but underneath his clothes, he was all muscle. His hair was dark brown, half long, like Henry Cavill in Immortals. His blue eyes were impressive. Like he could see right into your soul. Blue jeans, black leather boots, a brown suede jacket with a hoody. He also kept a 3 days beard which made his face look older than he probably was.

The bartender brought him a cup of coffee, dark as he had ordered. But before he put the cup in front of the stranger, he saw a glimpse of three intimidating bullies who lived in the neighbour. Normally they were a pack of four, it seemed that Rusty Wood’s condition was pretty bad. Yesterday, someone had attacked Rusty in his own house, police hasn’t given specifics about who could have done it.

First there was Butch McCools, he was forty-one and had a wife named Holy. Holy was by far the most beautiful women in town. She could have been a model fellow locals say. Butch however, was a rude but strong asshole that was suspected of domestic violence. Right behind him was the gang’s brains, Simon Wilson. Now he was a guy you should not mess with. About a quarter of the locals were related to this guy. The Wilson’s were the richest and most influenced family in Easing. Simon was thirty-nine and the eldest of his brothers. His sister Sistine was only twenty-two. But, no one dared to date the beauty. Except a guy called Doug Raid, he has been missing since three years. Number three of the gang was the driver, also known as the funny guy. His name was Richard Red. According to Butch, that was just a nickname, because he likes the colour red. The bartender saw them walking towards the bar, he hoped they didn’t saw him putting a cup of coffee in front of the stranger. Here in Easing, it was a closed community. Especially, since the departure of the Barnes brothers.

Simon took a seat left of the stranger. Butch stepped behind him, like he waited for a sign to attack, while Richard spoke to the bartender. Besides them, there was only Wendy Wayne sitting next to a window in the far corner of this establishment, she was the town’s doctor and an assistant in a nearby hospital.

‘You should be taught a lesson Darby.’ Richard said to the bartender.

‘Now we have to break something, you know how it works.’, Butch said.

‘Wendy, go with mister Darby here towards the back okay? Me and the guys want to have a little chat with mister nice guy here.’ Simon said.

Wendy and bartender Darby went to the back of the building where the kitchen was located and closed the door. The next thing they heard was pure silence. No voices, no fight and no breaking things. Wendy looked toward mister Darby. They were both