THE DUKE Part XXV Sergeant Cross looked up at both he and Jimmy, but made no comment about why the other boy was there. He simply waited, his tiny office filled by the three of them, two smallish chairs and the desk the sergeant sat behind. There was no room for...
THE DUKE Part XXIII Darren went back inside and began the real work of getting the place ready, the kind he made himself do well but didn’t like at all. The work he loved was with the people, not doing the scut work before anyone arrived, although nothing would be...
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #80 June 22, 2020 Hawaii, and why the island of Oahu is important to you, even though you are not there. Hawaii held a prominent position in the Chicago Tribune newspaper this morning. The Tribune’s...
THE DUKE Part XVI Darren moved toward the Moana Hotel, using the hot sidewalk instead of the more protective cooler sand along the shore. He’d left his flip flops in the car, but it had only occurred to him that he’d done so when he began his trek back to the...
The Duke Part XV How had the cop known that Jimmy was a military brat, and therefore needed transport to the Naval Hospital at Tripler instead of Queens or some place closer and private? Why was the Army coming? And why were the cops acting so weird, like a...