Segment 1.9

The doorbell sounded in the Daniels home.
Sugar snatched the cat off the counter where he had been purring loudly enough to be heard across the room. The plate of tuna shifted and clattered. The cat yowled a protest.
“I can’t be seen with you,” Sugar explained. The doorbell rang again.
Sugar hustled the cat to the patio [...]

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Segment 1.8

“Look there,” Dinah called. She slouched in the front seat of the cruiser squinting about at the neighborhood while they sat in park at the base of the circle that looped around the end of the road. She snapped up straight as she spoke and nudged her partner.
Sam grunted in reply, more intent on the [...]

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Segment 1.7

Emmy refilled the water can and turned to pour some water into the pothos that draped around the top of the breakfast bar. Water dripped out of the bottom of the pot and spilled across the front of a portrait that showed Emmy smiling at the shoulder of a man with a broad face and [...]

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Segment 1.6

He still knocked on the door, even though he was always expected. The fact that no one answered did not surprise. He knocked again, a little louder. He shifted the blooming azalea around in the crook of his arm, adjusting his grip.
The door opened just a crack and flew open wide. Polly Templeton stepped [...]

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Segment 1.5

Saffron Morales squealed and dropped a dish as the dark descended on her in the windowless galley kitchen of the condo. To her relief, the dish did not shatter around her bare feet. She squatted as quickly as her gravid belly would allow, one hand steadying her as it gripped the edge of the countertop. [...]

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Segment 1.4

Raisa Westcott observed the cruiser as it coasted by her unit. She sat at her desk typing, though every cloud and passing bird caused her to halt. She erased and typed again.
Extensive experience with a variety of software packages
“What if I try for a job with something I don’t know how to use?” she commented. [...]

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Segment 1.3

Sugar drifted through her home pushing pictures and curios back into place. She settled in front of the large wedding portrait, straining to find in the smiling bride covered in lace and lilies the miserable failure that slouched along at the heels of Oscar Daniels and earned his terrible wrath. She searched the handsome face [...]

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Segment 1.2

An unmarked police cruiser, a steel blue sedan, crept up the middle of Shoals Drive, unhindered by any traffic in the lazy late afternoon. Sam Tranh piloted the car with one hand while he hoisted an icy drink in a fast food cup in the other. Beside him, Dinah Saris scanned the trim lawns of [...]

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Segment 1.1

Emmy Garland tottered across the patio, a watering can clutched in one withered hand. She splashed a few drops of water across the half-withered plants poking out of the pots that dotted her small backyard realm.
“Hello my darlings. Aren’t you beautiful?”
Water trickled across the baked crumbles of dirt, leaving a dark stain.
Emmy’s body quivered in [...]

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