# Officer Mossback McCarty — Short Fiction character guide

> Officer Mossback McCarty in Short Fiction by R. A. Lafferty.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mossback

**First appearance:** 0000-the-six-fingers-of-time

## Who they are

A law officer with a rustic nickname.

## In the story

### [Dream World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_45_se/chapters/dream-world)

A policeman who intervenes when Teresa threatens to call for help, and questions Bascomb about his 'lamppost jag.'

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