Chapter 3
By the time Sean reached the Winston town limits, the snow had gotten much heavier. Between each swipe of a wiper blade, clumps of powder packed onto his windshield.
He felt his rear tires lose some traction as he crested a steep hill at the edge of the town square. A few pumps of the gas pedal kept him aligned on the road.
The whitened limbs of the large pine trees prevalent throughout the area bowed from the added weight of the elements. The tops of small buildings, closely clumped together, displayed a good four inches of buildup along their triangular arches.
The small business district of downtown Winston wasn’t on Sean’s way home, but a nagging question he’d held in his mind from the moment he’d left GSL urged him to take a detour.
There wasn’t much going on in town th
