Two sketchy looking men in their mid to upper twenties wearing stained, tattered jeans crawled out of the cab. Both were of medium height and didn't have a spare ounce of fat between them. One of them, the crustier of the two, opened the tool box alongside the bed of the El Camino and brought out...
I was feeling a bit groggy from the pain medicine they’d given me at the hospital. A shot of morphine and a Vicodin had definitely relieved the pain I’d been experiencing, but it had also left me with an out-of-body sensation. I felt like I was riding the ceiling fan and looking down at myself si...
I was tempted to roll over and go back to sleep, but I could hear music downstairs and knew Harriet was in the kitchen cooking breakfast for me. I didn't want to disappoint her again, so I groaned and stretched, and grudgingly got up to get dressed. I wasn't accustomed to eating early and really ...
He was rubbing his hip with his right hand as he drove with his left. "It's about Dolly's lunch time." Our lives usually revolved around the four-times-per-day eating schedule of the chubby six-year-old grey and white tabby we traveled with. Being this cat's servants was pretty much a thankless j...
Although the scenery in western Nebraska never changes all that much, we did spot a variety of wildlife, including deer, antelope, wild turkey, a coyote, and a road-killed bobcat. When I spotted a rare albino raccoon in a tree not far off the shoulder, I made Stone turn around and go back, with t...
The team of detectives had finished up, and Wendy had left with Nate Smith to transport Walter’s body to the county coroner’s office, which was located right next to the county morgue. Naturally, we were discussing the possibilities and circumstances surrounding Walter’s death. None of us could b...
When I finally got up to the counter the first time, after waiting in line twenty minutes, there was an older man who waited on me. I bought a book of stamps, and asked him if Ms. Wells was expected to work that day. He wasn’t certain, but told me she’d be in at twelve if she were on the schedule...