just because i've retired doesn't mean that i just forget the cases that i worked on, especially those cases that go cold so long that they come to bore a hole in your heart so deep that you discover it's actually heart worms, but the case i could never shake was over the death of a real community

i was cooking some eggs when the doorbell rang, but my phone was dead and i wasn't close enough to my desktop to check the video feed so i ignored it, but then it rang again, and again and this was becoming annoying, so i headed to the front door
"If this is another Latter Day Saint, so help me" i

"I don't know if I'd be here and in such good cheer if it weren't for that dream," said Peter
the day of family gathering and celebration was coming to a close and after a delicious feast featuring a scrumptious roast turkey, the family had now relocated to the living room with their digestifs in

i was sad and had recently finished a spicy dish of chicken vindaloo, and think there may have been a piece of pepper lodged somewhere in the back of my throat, so my eyes were running like waterfalls and my sinuses were leaking like a bad faucet on full blast, but there hadn't been a Kleenex in the

Greg had just broken things off and i was devastated
"Who wouldn't be after twenty years?" said Harriet, my best friend
Harriet had come over to comfort me after i called her in tears
"I thought he was going to propose!" i said breaking into sobs again
we were sitting on the floor in my kitchen, our

"We're nearly there!" Gramma yelled over the chilly wind
we had been in the arctic wilderness for nearly three weeks after Gramma was called in to lead a small search party in the Northern Anadocks, tasked with locating two researchers that had recently gone unexpectedly radio silent
"The calves