Not for Nothing
by Stephen Graham Jones
The town is Stanton, TX, population 3000. Your name is Nicholas Bruiseman, and you're a disgraced homicide detective so down on your luck you've been forced to take a job as the live-in security guard for the town's lone storage facility. At last, you can finally get on with the business of drinking yourself to a better state of mind, except the ghosts of childhood keep rising all around you. You might have been done with Stanton once upon a time, but Stanton's hardly done with you.