The house was practically shaking, so loud was the music at Lily’s eighteenth birthday party. Her parents had told her that the volume had to come down at eleven, and if the police were called, she would be in big trouble, so she was watching the time car...
JoJo feels it starting again and pulls to the side of the road. She closes her eyes, shudders, and waits until she catches her breath. She pulls back onto the street and continues her journey. As she pulls into the parking lot of her family doctor, she fe...
Caller: “Hello?” 119 Operator: “Hello! Happy holidays and thank you for choosing Butterball Turkey! What’s your emergency?” Caller: “Why would you think there’s an emergency?” Operator: “It’s Christmas Eve, sir. Why else would you be calling a...
Lieutenant Madeleine Johnson was exhausted, and properly so. She had earned the right to be fatigued. Sixteen hours she had been here with her team today, most of those hours spent outside on the nondescript lawn in front of the Public Safety Training F...
Decorated with a fire-scarred five storey concrete building, surrounded with pitted pavement dotted with all manner of wrecked vehicles--or the husks of those vehicles. Two buses, one articulated, hung forelorn and broken on a hillside, windows long sinc...
“Thank you for calling the Honeysuckle Ltd telephone information service! This hotline provides information and assistance to all of Honeysuckle Ltd’s business and franchise partners, authorized sellers and customers. Honeysuckle Ltd. specializes in...”“Y...
