It seemed like she had been sleeping forever when she had awoken in her room in the castle. Everything seemed so familiar, but felt as inherently different as it was known. Something scratched and clawed at the back of her memory, begging entrance. But something inside her head kept refusing. She couldn’t remember where she had been or even where ( Read more... )

Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.Confession ( Read more... )

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"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed." -Edgar Allan PoeI wasn't happy when I woke up to the incessant ringing of my cell phone in the other room because I was late for work. I'm never late for work. But that morning, I was. It took me a few seconds to register the blood that coated my shirt, my tailored pants, and was dried and caked ( Read more... )

Izzi yawned softly as she sat on one of the large stones that made of the base of the pyramid of the Castillo Real in Cozumel. The last three days had been an insane whirlwind that had left her exhausted, but not too exhausted to enjoy ruins that were over a thousand years old that looked out over the Carribean. The guide from earlier that day had ( Read more... )

Isabella parked her car in the usual spot in the guest parking lot of the Le Meridien hotel. It had been a usual day at the office, if by usual she meant Calvin had driven her absolutely crazy and she'd ended up with another assignment without being given a contract for it. Fourth one that month. In the middle of the fiasco because she was both ( Read more... )

Cold Case Report
Det. LaurentisIt has been four years since we have have officially closed the homicide investigation of Luciana Maria Mancini after six months of investigation that had very few leads and led to no arrests or conviction. It was officially ruled unsolved and closed ( Read more... )

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham LincolnMy boss wasn't always the jackass he is now ( Read more... )