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 ...
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, b...
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...
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...
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 month...
2022-06-05 20:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post(Updated: 2/25/2025)
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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 h...
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 a...
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 allo...
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 base...
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 nec...
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...
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...
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 fi...
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 ...
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 shor...
2022-05-10 20:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt 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, Solomo...
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'...
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 sa...
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...
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. F...
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...
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 ...
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 mus...
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...
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 a...
2022-04-12 16:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostCarthaginian 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 hectar...
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.”
<... 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 receivin...
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 un...
2022-04-04 14:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post