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Slick’s firing, though inevitable, was poorly timed. It was too soon. Blame needed to build over the next few days, culminating in retribution after the end of the fiscal year. Rudy had seen it playing out in the first week of October, after Fitch’s finance team closed the books. Slick, Joe and the Trinity would […]

Kak didn’t have to look to know she’d overslept. She didn’t remember shutting off the alarm. That’s what happened when you tossed until an hour before it went off. She’d have to hurry now. Her bedroom door eased open in absolute silence. Kudos to the ‘Tween Waters Inn maintenance staff. At home she’d been forced […]

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Well, not your toaster.

It was already warm in the terminal. Rudy loosened his tie in the reflection of the broad window between him and the tarmac outside Gate 6A of Southwest Florida International Airport. The sun’s first rays reflected off the jet bridge extending to the Airbus 319 carrying him north in less than forty-five minutes. He stepped […]

“At least you have closure,” Kak said, arranging the bandages, gauze pads, alcohol wipes and antiseptic gel from the shop’s first aid kit onto the table between them. “I never knew my father.” “Neither did I.” “You just scattered the ashes of a man you never met?” “Didn’t say I never met him. Said I […]