Dorothy had been my first call, and was my first stop; to drop off Hope and pick up some supplies. Dorothy runs the Tri-Lakes Animal Shelter (TLAS), and introduced Hope and me the previous summer (a perfect and lucky moment for both of us in what turned out to be the most exciting/dangerous/law...
I could see the end of what I had to do, and was already past the beginning, but had no clear idea on how to get from where I was to where I needed to be at the end of the process; the middle was entirely unknown to me. I knew what had happened, not with enough certainty to satisfy the police, bu...
I slept for two hours and twenty-four (which makes 144) minutes, which is the thirteenth number in the Fibonacci sequence, and 13 is itself a Fibonacci number, and one of only three Wilson Primes, all of which I liked/chose to take as a positive sign about my upcoming meeting out on Church Pond...
You’ve got a big fucking problem unless you can turn my frown upside-down in the next few minutes. Tell me everything that you know about dead birds, starting … now.” John said all of this casually, but punctuated it by slamming a paring knife that he must have grabbed from my sink down on the co...