Can I Get A Witness? (**TYPO: BINDED = BLINDED)_Sand Dragons_It Isn't Daisy's Fault... I Se
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Can I Get A Witness? (**TYPO: BINDED = BLINDED)
CAN I GET A WITNESS?Detective Terry Waits drummed her fingers on the top of her desk. She wasn’t angry, so much as frustrated. Witness statements. They were the worst — always notoriously unreliable. But more so this time. It wasn’t the statements that were confounding her, but the witnesses themselves. They were an unconventional group, to say the least.“So, what do you think? Anyone lying?” asked her partner, Carlos Ito. Ito was the junior partner, and he valued Waits’s take on most situations. Sometimes Ito thought that Terry Waits was some kind of a crime whisperer — she seemed to be able ...
Sand Dragons
I looked behind myself and shielded my eyes from the piercing rays. The community compound was becoming more like a distant shiny object than a facility where hundreds of people lived and protected themselves from the dangers of the sands. When they forced me to leave, they had told me that I was lucky that today was the longest day of the year, a day that would give me 17 hours before the night would come and the sand dragons would eat me whole. I did not think I was very lucky. I did not need 17 hours, now 11 hours since I was forced out, to think about how I was going to be consumed.I did ...
It Isn't Daisy's Fault... I See That Now.
ROSIE:I see nothing’s changed. Mum is still ensuring the world revolves around darling Daisy, whilst I’m an itch she can’t scratch.“Did you hear, Marjory? Daisy starts at Oxford in the autumn. Two A*s and an A, eh? A child of mine, off to read Chemistry at Oxford,” she says.No mention of the eldest daughter studying paramedic science at Teesside University, but her lack of pride is no surprise. Middlesbrough is not as prestigious. Besides, it’s me.“We visited a few weeks ago,” Daisy states. “Truly amazing and the halls of residence are stunning.”An Aunt Marjory cuddle follows, and she stares o...
From Shadows
www.onedoor.cc The City of Sunrise was a paradise, for many.Tall skyscrapers that peaked above the clouds, the city lights that never went out during even the darkest of nights, and a place bustling with opportunities for many young, aspiring workers. In the skies was where everyone wanted to be. A place where you were up so high that the sun was always shining, and the occasional cirrus cloud would pass through your neighborhood. Sunrise’s artificial climate would keep the temperatures nice and balmy up there, and also supply enough oxygen for all the residents. At night, neon lights would flash across...