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Chapter 30: Tell Me a Story (Part II)
Frog caught a glimpse of Roger, he was out of place.
Elaine got it wrong, she mused, one of their impromptu cadre had been indoctrinated and she kept her bets on Roger. She kept one eye on Elaine, who still spoke into her phone, and one eye on Roger. In her peripheral vision, she noticed the [...]
Chapter 30: Tell Me a Story (Part I)
“Excuse me?” Emily said. “Who is this?”
“At first I thought it might be as simple as a stalker, but it’s not an emotional attachment to a relationship with you. It’s not even the simple vanity of a deranged mind driving the psychology of this. This is hero worship.”
“Ms. Mercer?” Emily lowered her voice, hoping that [...]
Chapter 29: Into the Spotlight (Part III)
Frog directed Andrew and Roger to break and move around the crowd to the north and took Elaine and Howie with her into the mob from the south. The split company near the fountain between the MU and the chapel. The mass of people surrounding the stage on Hayden lawn had spread almost far enough [...]
Chapter 29: Into the Spotlight (Part II)
The crowd surrounding the stage buzzed with conversation; the rise and fall of voices became white noise, sound waves collapsing together destroying and regenerating over the ever expanding shoals of humanity. Sunlight glinted with sharp alacrity from hundreds of VOTE EARLY buttons pinned to the shirt breasts and sleeves of equally eager audience members. The [...]
Chapter 29: Into the Spotlight (Part I)
“How is the project going?” Frog asked. She removed her eye from the peephole in the door and paced back into the room proper, slipping between Hadaly and Elaine. “The boys appear to be getting restless.”
“Eighty-percent complete,” Elaine said. “I am mentally formulating our approach plan to Hayden Lawn. It will be tricky to get [...]
Chapter 28: To Turn a Phrase (Part II)
Roger edged to the doorway to get a better look at the girl Howie had referred to but found Elaine blocking his way. She shook her head and grabbed onto the door.
“Could you boys wait out in the hall for a moment?” she said. “I need some privacy with Frog for a moment to get [...]
Chapter 28: To Turn a Phrase (Part I)
“You’re in my way, Zach,” Elaine said and moved to push past him; he proved to be an unmovable object. She stepped back and fashioned her face into the crushing expression she’d seen her mother use on Zane and Blaine to get them to sit down and shut up. “The stuff with the dean has [...]
Chapter 27: The Scent of Disaster (Part III)
“The hijack is possibly more subtle than that,” Elaine said. “Here, we can do an experiment with what we have with us. It’ll be inconclusive, but if my hypothesis is correct, we can demonstrate it at least once.” She gestured to Howie, who reluctantly disengaged himself from Frog’s personal space to move the two feet [...]
Chapter 27: The Scent of Disaster (Part II)
Ah-choo! Ahead of them, Howie broke into a short sneezing fit as they passed a stand of flowers. “Urgh, whatever these are they always do that to me. The smell reminds me of summer back at my parent’s ranch, always so much ragweed I’d end up with a runny nose the entire time.”
“Need a tissue?” [...]
Chapter 27: The Scent of Disaster (Part I)
Elaine reluctantly abandoned the field after their serendipitous encounter with Roger’s friend. Emily looked busy, standing up atop the newly constructed stage with her apparent lieutenants. She didn’t answer cell phone calls or shouts; the people with her on the stage adequately blocked both egress and ingress and shielded her from the general crowd. A [...]
