First Draft Excerpt #1

"...and to us it was. Osage, Iowa in November of 1997 was home to exactly 3,503 little Iowans. Osage was then, and is to this day, the seat of Mitchell County. (It was stolen from Mitchell Township in 1907 through a series of shady deals made my Chuck Unsurewhoheis. True story.) Osage was home to the county fair and all kinds of legal papers in the court house on Chase Street. With its TWO active water towers, its eleventy churches, all nine police officers, three factories (making socks, binding paper, and drying blood), and FOUR stop lights...Osage was something special, alright. Osage was pretty big."
--Ricerick Writes