Fiction by Brad Abruzzi
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In a small roadside strip of woods ten miles north of the Walt Whitman Service Area, Alice Delphine Merkel sits Indian style, nibbles at a peanut butter sandwich in a baggie, and takes stock of her situation. After peaking at number seven back in February, the Turnpike Witch has very nearly dropped out of Crimedog.com’s Top Forty Outlaws List. This week’s rankings mark a two-year low for Alice’s alter ego on Crimedog’s thermometer of criminal notoriety.
Brad Abruzzi is author of a novel, New Jersey’s Famous Turnpike Witch, and an attorney in the office of the general counsel at MIT. Brad graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2001, where he served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. Brad also holds MA (New York University, 1998) and AB (Princeton University, 1995) degrees in English literature.