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    Vanishing Horizons
    Vanishing Horizons
    Vanishing Horizons
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    Vanishing Horizons

    By J.P. Voss

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    Royce Culhane borrows a car in Jackson Mississippi, heads for the Stateline with his sweetheart Velma, and lands in a cell at Leavenworth prison.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.P. Voss
    Release dateApr 14, 2011
    ISBN9781458145239
    Vanishing Horizons
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    J.P. Voss

    I'm a middle-aged rounder with a checkered past. I've always been full of it. A few years ago, I started putting it on paper.

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      Vanishing Horizons - J.P. Voss

      Vanishing Horizons

      By J.P. Voss

      Copyright J.P. Voss 2011

      Smashwords Edition

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      Royce Culhane stared through the reinforced wire mesh window, past the bars, and beyond his vanishing horizons. It was August of ’61, his nineteenth birthday, and Royce was in transit from the county lock up in Jackson Mississippi to the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth Kansas. He’d been sentenced to eight years for Interstate Transportation of a Stolen Vehicle, and Transporting a Minor Across the State Line for the Purpose of Immoral Acts. His crime—his only real crime—was that he loved Milford W. McKenna’s seventeen-year-old daughter Velma.

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      Things had been good for Royce during the first few months of 1961. Life had been especially fine that first week of May.

      Royce soaked in the easy Mississippi morning as he headed over to Velma’s in his chopped ’33 Ford. The sun was still low in the southern sky and the shade from the

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