Fiction
This is Installment 2.
For Installment 1, click here.
Chapter Three
Saturday, April 10, 1993
Wasco, CA -- 2:15 AM PST
The first leg of Deborah’s trek had gone well. Noah slept peacefully in his car seat while the Mustang hummed down Interstate 5 toward Kingman. At just before two o’clock Saturday morning the two hit their first patch of trouble.
This is Installment 1.
For Installment 2 click here.
A Matter of State
Is San Francisco Police Inspector Hal Frederick a law enforcement saint or a garden variety troublemaker? It depends on who you ask.
Fresh off a case that scandalized SFPD and sent shock waves through city hall, Frederick discovers that, Deborah Garrison, a missing local woman, may be at the heart of yet another political crisis – this one centered in Hawaii. There, on the Big Island, a string of sensational murders, combined with a plot to addict Native Hawaiians to designer dope, begins driving Hawaii toward a political precipice – declaring its independence from the United States.
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Fiction
Image: James Robert Terrell
So the man in the black suit strides confidently through the great divide in the House Chamber as it's in full session, everyone standing in respect. He pretty much ignores them as he steps up by an empty chair at the podium. From here he gazes out to those gathered before him as they noisily take their seats. And he continues to stand silent and unmoving until there's just a murmur in the air among the 435 seated before him, as if waiting for his characteristic persona to emerge.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Fiction
(Wayne LaPierre is the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association nal Rifle Association <NRA>)
ST. PETER: So, you suffered from anachronisticdenialitis, did you?
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Fiction
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- What current or historical voices capture your curiosity?
- Whom would you like to hear in conversation, alone or with another or others?
- What is it that they might say/have said out of earshot – frivolous or serious; short or extended – that you would love to hear?
The IFZ Conjuror will channel your wishes. Place your choice on the in the comments below this article and let's see what happens.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Fiction
With the photo-opportunity over, the media is asked to leave the meeting room.
Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama are left alone.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Fiction
FORMAL APOLOGY TO MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS
(The following is a composite family of real life people that I know. These people actually exist but because they are ashamed of their actions I promised I would alter their story slightly so they would not be recognized. Meet Mary and her loser family.)
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Fiction
UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: Are you both ready for this conference call?
TWO VOICES, SIMULTANEOUSLY: Yes.
