Sep 3, 2025 | A Day In My Life
In the early 20s, McCall’s asked Zelda Fitzgerald to write on essay on the super flapper. The article was never published and long thought lost. But it has now been rediscovered… I suppose I should begin by thanking McCall’s for asking me to write about a creature...
Sep 2, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Hey! My name is Nicole Underwood, but you can call me Nikki. I’m the babysitter of . . . Sorry. Let me try that again. I’m the executive assistant of Xander Chambers, CEO of Altruist Corporation. A quick scan of my Outlook calendar shows a packed schedule today. I’ve...
Sep 1, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Funny how things come back to you. Getting dressed for dinner with my parents to mark their forty-fifth wedding anniversary, my thoughts turned to another occasion decades earlier when we were together in London, celebrating the end of my police officer training. That...
Aug 29, 2025 | A Day In My Life
“I will trade you sheep and wood for coffee. Stat,” I joke to Charlie Reynolds, slumping over the counter at the Drip and Sip, the local cafe in my adopted hometown, Hollows Way. I’ve lived here since my college days and I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Even...
Aug 28, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Some dogs chase balls. Some chase squirrels. Me? I chase killers. Not alone, of course. I’m part of the Unlikely Murder Club. My humans do the talking, the snooping, and the wildly incorrect guessing. I do the hard part: keeping them on track. And when we succeed,...
Aug 27, 2025 | A Day In My Life
“Do you know, when I was a child, it was the lavatory to which I retired for quiet meditation.” I froze. The voice behind me, British and unmistakably posh, had come out of nowhere. But this was impossible. There had been no one in the Mystery Guild Library when I’d...
