I drove home and collapsed on my bed. I didn't sleep though. I just lay there thinking about things. I would have to see Kluge and try to sell him on the idea that Alexis was gone to Texas. I rubbed my eyes. I rubbed them again and noticed that the room was full of sunlight. I'd been asleep for h...
They were looking for a youth pastor, and Leonard knew the preacher and thought he’d take a chance on a kid fresh out of school. Leonard had convinced me that I needed to go to a little junior college and pick up a two year degree in communications. The classes themselves were boring, except for ...
I found her upstairs in the dimmed waiting area outside of the obstetrics ward. Somewhere, I could hear a baby crying. Standing at a floor length window, still wearing her band jacket, Lynn looked down on the orange pools of light in the hospital parking lot. “Lynn,” I sai...