I headed home, still thinking about what Orville had originally asked. I really was enjoying being a deputy, but as I dragged myself into my apartment and flopped into bed, I realized there was one part I didn’t like. After a week of constantly shuffling shifts, I was having a hell of a time developing a sleep schedule. I’d talked to Al abou...
2022-06-14 03:51:59 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the run-in with Evan, I abandoned the rest of my walk along main street and went to do my patrol of the rest of the county before it got dark. I tried to stay focused on making notes of anything worth circling back to or checking on later, but my mind kept wandering. After the BBQ, when they’d mentioned trying to buy Rosita’s land, I...
2022-06-12 01:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough my first shift had turned out very exciting, or at least unexpectedly, the rest of the week was closer to what I expected. I handled more calls on my first shift on the NYPD than I did my entire first week working for Orville. Besides the chase of the misguided Alexander Bowman, the disposition of which Orville had agreed with, the only...
2022-06-09 17:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the week went by pretty fast. I decided the best way to spend my last week being unemployed was bumming around my apartment, being as useless as possible. I still went by Rosita’s every night to help her with the dinner rush, and we’d turned that into returning to her house for a serious make-out session several of those nights.<...
2022-06-07 16:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostSince it was still fairly early and I had time to kill, I decided to go by my parents’. I hadn’t visited since moving out and the last time I talked to Mom was days before the fire, so I figured I was due. They’d grown used to me going months without a phone call or an email when I’d been in New York City, but I knew my mom well enough t...
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2022-06-05 05:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe rebuilding site turned into almost a party as people who’d been working earlier came by. A few were even hauling ice chests of beer. It didn’t get too rowdy, but everyone had a good time. I spent some of the time with Rosita, but between her continued work trying to get people to contribute and donate to the rebuild project, we didn’t ...
2022-06-03 17:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostSince I was more or less done with the investigation, I left the patrol vehicle at the station. It didn’t feel right to drive it around for personal use, especially when I had basically everything I needed except for the credit check on Jeremy and the lab report on the samples I’d taken. Honestly, I was confident enough in my conclusions tha...
2022-06-01 17:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough his son said he wasn’t receiving visitors, I took a shot and called the hospice where Mr. Williams was living the next morning. Apparently, his son had anticipated this, because he’d called ahead and instructed the hospice to not allow his father any visitors, which is exactly the kind of thing someone with something to hide would d...
2022-05-29 16:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostI decided I needed to interview Mr. Cooper before talking to the nearby business owners. Normally, canvassing was the first thing detectives would have us do at a scene, but we’d take just basic statements and the detectives would follow up based on that and other information they found in their investigation.
As of right now, I didn’t...
2022-05-26 22:13:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt took almost five hours to get everything he needed in place, partially because of travel time for Lopez, but also because he needed at least sixteen agents from the local office and five identical cars.
“I’m still not sure this is necessary,” Robert Dayoub, the local SAC who ran the New Jersey office, said as they rode the elevato...
2022-05-24 03:24:11 +0000 UTC View PostSunday we all drove to Raleigh in a convoy, with me and Kat in my car, Hanna and Seth in Hanna’s car, and Lyla and Marco in Marco’s van carrying most of the band’s equipment.
The first stop was Hanna’s aunt’s house which was out in the suburbs. While I wanted to see where the rest of the band was going to be living, they’d actu...
2022-05-21 15:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostAfter finishing my somewhat bizarre doctor’s appointment, I headed back toward what was left of the barbershop. It was an easy walk, but if I was going to do this, then I’d need to at least go up to Summersville to see Mr. Cooper, and probably a few other stops as well, which meant I needed a car. I could borrow Mom’s for a little while, b...
2022-05-19 14:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt took almost an hour for the fire department to get the blaze all the way out. The barbershop was a complete waste, as was most of the pawnshop next door. The ambulance took almost twenty minutes to arrive, but thankfully one of the volunteer firefighters had a bottle of oxygen and some paramedic training, and they were able to get Mr. Cooper ...
2022-05-16 15:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor hated dealing with DA’s and US Attorneys. If being lawyers wasn’t bad enough, these guys were also politicians, more worried about how they’d look in the papers than actually putting criminals behind bars.
As usual, even though everyone was using every chance they got to point out how important this case was, the guy left Tayl...
2022-05-13 17:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe still had a few hours until our set that night, so I made my way out to Willie’s shack, which wasn’t far from the Blue Ridge, easy walking distance. I knew he’d be at the restaurant before long, but he’d been cutting his time there shorter and shorter over the last month, which made sense now that Chef had given me a little context. 2022-05-10 20:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a sign that something big was going on when Solomon’s secretary waved Taylor through as soon as he walked into the outer office. While he wasn’t the kind of Washington bureaucrat to make visitors wait to show how powerful he was, Solomon was the Director of the FBI, which meant things were constantly coming up that had to be dealt wit...
2022-05-07 13:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostI spent a few days thinking about what Rosita had said. I guess if I were being fair, I should say thinking about what my mother had said, since it was her original idea, but Rosita had put it into words that actually hit home.
True, I wasn't planning on being here that long, but being in my parents’ house had my life stuck on cruise con...
2022-05-04 16:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the meeting was mostly Hanna peppering Kent with questions about procedure in the studio and what would happen with our album once we were finished with it. I had to hand it to Hanna, she was really prepared. While I had some of the same questions she asked, she had a lot that hadn’t even occurred to me. Things like release schedul...
2022-05-01 14:15:40 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the debacle at the cookout, I spent the next few days at home, not really wanting to go out. Part of me wanted to go talk to Orville about what Evan and his friends were up to, even though I knew there wasn’t much he could do without proof. I knew it shouldn’t, but it really annoyed me that Evan had assumed I’d have been on board wit...
2022-04-28 15:24:24 +0000 UTC View PostFriday I was getting a late start again, but this time on purpose. We had our first meeting with our studio rep, who had wanted to come out and see us before we met him again at the studio next week.
Although we’d been working out of Mr. French’s garage, this kind of meeting needed something more formal as a setting, which is why we we...
2022-04-25 15:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostI called Rosita, who was at the hospital in under ten minutes, which was a lot faster than I’d been expecting. Charleston was a decent-sized city and the hospital wasn’t near a lot, so I’d have expected she would have driven further into the city to do her exploring.
“How was it?” She asked when I got into the car.
“Good....
2022-04-22 13:17:34 +0000 UTC View Post“So, who’s this girl that’s driving you again?” Mom asked for the thirtieth time that morning when I explained why I didn’t need a ride to the doctor’s.
“Her name’s Rosita. I don’t actually know her last name. She runs the taco place across from the high school.”
“I don’t think I know her, but I don’t go dow...
2022-04-18 22:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostI was running late, as usual.
Ever since I signed my music contract, my life seemed to be speeding up to the point where I couldn’t really control it anymore. There were times I almost missed being just a high school student who played music on the weekends.
Here it was, the beginning of summer, and I spent the last two weeks eithe...
2022-04-15 16:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostTrenton, New Jersey
“Three cards,” Jacob Dolan said, laying three cards face down on the cheap table between him and his partner.
“Why always three? Seriously. You have to be throwing away decent cards to do that every single hand, or you’re the most unlucky son of a bitch that’s ever lived. Or, you keep th...
2022-04-12 16:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostIrish Coast
Llassar pulled the small one-man boat onto the shore. He half considered finding a cove or outcropping to try and hide the boat, but it didn’t matter. If he didn’t find a way to get in contact with Salbuide and convince the King to join them, there was a strong chance the Ériu would never let him leave. 2022-04-12 16:43:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Carthaginian Army
Bomilcar coughed through the thick wool cloth pulled over his face, once again mentally cursing the governor and his short-sighted demands. The army was moving slowly and shedding soldiers with every hectare. Broken legs from slips on the icy stone road, frostbite because of conscripts not being issued pr...
2022-04-10 16:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“We’re still weak on the blocking side,” Velius said, looking down at the large map holding dozens of carved figures. “If we can’t hold them in this box, they will sweep around the lake and crush us.”
“I know, but we don’t have much of a choice. We have to use enough of a bait force to make the...
2022-04-08 18:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostCaledonian Camps Outside Devnum
Lucilla weaved through the rows of tents looking, occasionally stopping to say hello to this group or that. Considering how she’d grown up, always in the public eye, she was used to receiving attention. She’d traveled legion camps numerous times over her life, both as a younger woman as ...
2022-04-06 13:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostKy and Ramirus continued working well into the night, reviewing reports and deciding how best to deal with Romans who had to be relocated to keep the battle location safe, and the possibility of relocating other Romans from areas that weren’t under threat as a way to throw off the Carthaginians.
At first, Ky had been against the idea, si...
2022-04-04 14:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post