Dec 5, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Hi there. Angel Johnson here. I’m a homicide detective in Dallas and proud to call Big D my home. I may not be able to stay for long. When working homicide you never know when you are going to be called to a murder scene. I wish I could say our cases are all as...
Dec 4, 2012 | A Day In My Life
by Amanda Lee In my latest adventure, THREAD ON ARRIVAL, I meet the nicest little old man named Chester. He’s so concerned about the welfare of his family. You see, his son Adam is abusive toward his daughter-in-law. He’s abusive to Chester too, but Chester feels he...
Dec 3, 2012 | A Day In My Life
6:30 AM: I wake up. Okay, I don’t wake up. My bladder wakes up. I reach for my glasses on the night table and knock them to the floor. I grope blindly (literally, not figuratively) and finally locate them. Bladder is now signaling a code red. Make it to toilet just in...
Nov 30, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I’m not certain whether I’m running from ennui or just can’t help sticking my foot into a pile of someone-else’s business. My name is Damon Lassard and I have more free time than any thirty-one-year-old has a right to have. I was a mediocre baseball player in the...
Nov 29, 2012 | A Day In My Life
by Jayne Ormerod I have fifty women coming to my house to play Bunco. What? You’ve never heard of Bunco? Allow me to enlighten you. Bunco (or Bunko) is a social dice game involving 100% luck and zero skill. It was originally a Victorian parlor game that made its way...
Nov 28, 2012 | A Day In My Life
So you’d like to know what my typical day is like? There’s my work with ATLAS, a covert government organization, in which I do the occasional forensic art: identification sketch from a skull, sketch of a murder suspect, maybe even lending a hand in an investigation....