Chris Bauer is a brute force novelist. “The thing I write will be the thing I write.” His novels include thrillers Zero Island and Hiding Among the Dead from the Blessid Trauma Crime Scene Cleaning series; Binge Killer, which had some of its bones in this short story; and horror-thriller Scars on the Face of God, all from Severn River Publishing, plus Jane’s Baby, a political crime thriller about the landmark Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision, from Intrigue Publishing.