Alberta Clipper

An ex-con who accidentally kills his sister's creditor, lonely truckers and a down-on-his luck rural college professor whose classes are cancelled due to ""weak enrollment"" are some of the desperate characters populating John Salter's debut story collection, Alberta Clipper. Though some are mysteries, other stories are simply gritty slices of life from what's left of the wild West the isolated, wintry small towns of the Northern Plains.