Jul 15, 2014 | A Day In My Life
The name’s Rebecca Mayfield, and I’m a cop. A San Francisco Homicide Inspector, to be precise, and I’m a stickler for following the law. “By the book,” was my motto for the first ten years of my career. But then I met Richard Joseph...
Jul 14, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Nestled in the heart of Ohio’s Amish Country, Painters Mill reveals its bucolic splendor in soft layers that fall upon the senses in small, breathtaking increments. It’s a rural community teeming with hundred-year-old barns, shimmering cornfields, rolling pastures and...
Jul 12, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My name is Joe Reeder. My closer friends tend to call me “Peep,” but “Joe” will do just fine. I like to think I’m a normal guy, by the standards of the late 2020s, anyway. These days I’m a business man, but my background is law enforcement. My Washington, D.C.-based...
Jul 10, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m not the pro—protagonist in Ruin Falls, I don’t think. Actually, I don’t really know what that word means, so I guess I could be. But I don’t think so because Ruin Falls is really my Mommy’s story. It started when we all went away on vacation. Me, my brother, Reid...
Jul 9, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Today is the day I’m reclaiming my life. Ten months ago, some kid, a student at Rothbert University I’d never met or taught in class, tried to take it from me. And then he succeeded in taking his own. I guess I should feel bad about that kid, but he didn’t leave me...
Jul 8, 2014 | A Day In My Life
The phone rang, and I answered it. I know — pigeon move, right? You look at the caller I.D. and it says something like “VALUTECH LLC” or “LUXURY LIVING” or (in this case) “WHEELER AND ASSOC” and you know what that means. Or I do, anyway. Because usually I’m the one on...
