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Bad Karma and the Family Plan #84(17.4) by Julie Lynn Hayes
Without waiting for her to respond—or to launch herself at me, whichever might be her preference—Ethan, my knight in shining armor, bravely leapt into the fray with a segue meant to redirect her attention where we wanted it to go.
“Actually, I think the better question is have you been talking to your current director? What was his name? Faulkner?”
I couldn’t help but notice Troy
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I’d not met Jeff yet as his parents wouldn’t move into town for a couple more years. In the meantime, I was still the scrawny know-it-all that I always would and would be in the eyes of my peers.
The highlight of the year was not spending most of the summer with my leg in a knee brace. Far from it. Six weeks later, the stitches were removed and I was set free to enjoy the rest of the summer.
Whoops! The doctor who’d been overseeing my recovery was wrong. The next night, I was out running around…
Damn, he hated being right. Around mid-morning on the next day, when the city was still the faintest smudge on the horizon to Beckett, Valrinda came swooping down. “There’s a large cloud of dust heading our way.”
“Dust?” He thought it was just the nature of the desert, not something coming for them.
“Well, obviously something is making the dust, but for that to happen, something must be kicking up enough sand and dust on the sides of the road to make such a thick cloud even I can’t really see what is coming. Just… there’s a lot.”
The wisps
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