On The River's Edge
Martha Duke Anderson
- River
- Rock,
- nestled
- on
- the
- Muscogee
- River's
- edge,
- like
- a
- snake
- in
- a
- curvy
- flower
- bed,
- is
- home
- to
- Sheriff
- Jack
- Raymer.
- When
- a
- seventeen-year-old
- girl
- is
- raped,
- the
- retired
- Marine,
- turned
- Sheriff,
- appears
- indifferent.
- Hardened
- and
- calloused
- from
- his
- military
- service,
- he
- buried
- his
- sensitivity
- long
- ago.
- After
- the
- sheriff
- and
- a
- self-interested
- Alabama
- senator
- encounter
- the
- rapists,
- their
- attitudes
- drastically
- change.On
- the
- River's
- Edge
- takes
- on
- the
- far-reaching
- effects
- of
- rape
- on
- its
- victims,
- and
- everyone
- they
- touch.
- Each
- discovers
- things
- within
- themselves;
- things
- they
- never
- thought
- possible
- -
- the
- dark,
- the
- ugly,
- the
- evil,
- as
- well
- as
- the
- tender,
- sweet,
- and good.
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