Where it had once felt cold and unfamiliar, the metal of the gun is warm against his hands. He traces the curves of the barrel back toward the hammer, and turns it over slowly, rocking the cylinder in place, wondering how many bullets it still holds. Knowing it can be no more than four.
From where he sits on the floor beneath the window, he can hear Mrs. Shepherd calling to him. She’s coming down the hall toward his room — the one at the end, away from the others.
“Mr. Adams?” she says, knocking on his shut door with…
I remember the exact moment I decided to leave local news. I was in my boss’s office, arguing over what story to assign our last reporter. It was a slow day, the kind of day that frays the nerves of anyone on the assignment desk — where I was sitting. We’d already had our editorial meeting and I’d already exhausted the ideas I’d come up with that morning. We were floundering.
But then, we got a gift.
We were emailed a press release announcing the arrest of a local home health nurse police accused of stealing $90,000 from a 90-year-old…
Joseph White
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