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Archive for July, 2009

Clothing drifted away, taking with it the smells of the hospital. A shower and a fresh set of duds would set the world back on the path to a bearable semblance of normalcy. Just slipping into a favorite pair of gel sandals could make troubles seem distant and tiny.
Raisa clutched a towel to herself as [...]

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No key fit the lock. No key came close.
“Hey,” a raspy voice barked from somewhere near the front of the store. “No one goes back there. Got it?”
A great swishing of plastic and cloth flowing together announced the engagement of the mechanical rack that pulled the cleaned clothing up to the front of the [...]

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The other side of the street, just a few feet away, could have been another country.
“And me without a passport,” Sydney muttered, his hands resting on his hips.
Crossing the street into the Court could put him back into the city lock-up for violating his restraining order. Anyone thinking the police had better things to [...]

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Shauna Rae, feeling guilty over Caleb’s accident, runs away from the hospital just before he goes into surgery, leaving her half-sisters in a quandary over searching for her. Pug encounters Peter and his cold shoulder at the dry cleaners, where he is conducting a review of the property for Monique. Petra locates the nursing home [...]

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Hallucinating again. The medication used to make her ears ring and sometimes caused the room to spin. There were other effects she was too modest to mention, even to her doctor. Now she thought she was hearing Lyndsey call to her from somewhere far away as she lay in her bed, as if he was [...]

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The door fell open on one twist of the knob, unlocked. Monique pocketed her lock kit and swallowed her disappointment. She almost turned back, disgusted at being able to enter without a challenge. The home itself repulsed her. Someone had recreated the pages of a department store sale flyer. All about were cheaply made pressed [...]

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The flash and thump of the heart monitor put Caleb’s mortality and fragility on the forefront every few seconds. The weight of this knowledge had become almost too much for Rebecca Issacson to bear. She longed to get away from that sound and yet found herself mesmerized. Her feet tapped with the rhythm.
Beside her, Imelda [...]

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