April 12th

28May09

Becky Landers was only twenty-seven years old when she caught the business end of a car while walking across the street. She was thrown clear and almost miraculously unhurt. Her husband, Tate, was killed instantly.
The driver of the car escaped on foot and is still at large.
Becky was almost unhurt. Becky suffered no physical damage [...]

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Of Stoops and Alleys

27May09

Ladana Berg ran home as fast as she could from her somewhat uptight Catholic prep school. She pumped her legs faster and faster until her track trained gams were reaching the point of strain. She breathed deep and easy, paced herself the last block, calmed down, double checked that she wasn’t sweating in the thick [...]

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Nothing That Can be Taken

26May09

It took three tries before Detective Roberto De Logala found the stoolie that had the information he wanted. It might have been a shame that he had permanently crippled them for not telling him what they didn’t know, but he wasn’t considering that it should impact his conscience, little did.
So he reloaded the shotgun, leveraged [...]

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Paris Train

25May09

Long trip on the Paris train, from the place he wanted to be to the place he had to go.
Late Saturday night, long week behind him, short break before him. It would be cut even shorter by the train. Hours of peeling rain slapping against the window created a cadence that lulled him into the [...]

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