Finished Folds (141—160)
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3There were several restaurants just around the corner that would sell you a tiny chunk of salmon for thirty bucks, but I was more interested in the cookies. Ever since I had
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5She wheeled around the corner of Fourth and onto Lenora. I checked out the marquis at the Cinerama in case I had some free time but it wasn’t anything I was interested in.
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1Until a year ago he owned his father’s pawn shop but left it to deal in anything-you-want from a shop with no address. I saw him walk behind the police car and light
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2Sarge looked like a darker, stockier, older, Korean version of me. His black hair flecked with white and his tan, wrinkled face covered with stubble; Sarge walked with a limp from
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2Dark scars from hundreds of bare knuckle encounters wove intricate webs on the backs of her hands. The officer caught site of that and took a second look at Lea's credentials.
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1I made a mental note to drive more carefully. This kind of thing can wear thin on someone after the fifth or sixth time. Kris put her hands on the wheel in exasperation and that’s
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2I slid out of the way without comment, taking and putting on her sunglasses. When the officer arrived, Iris rolled down the window and stared blankly at him, waiting.
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1She never gave me specifics and I didn’t ask but she’d left town the same night I did and didn’t cross my path until she wanted to seven years ago. I slid out of the way without
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2By the time the officer made it to the window, she’d climbed over me and I’d slid under. She took my baseball cap and I took her black Ray-bans. That was usually sufficient
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3She was attractive enough, even with the crooked nose and the thin scar that created a bare line through her eyebrow, but she was the kind of woman who didn’t wear make-up and
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1I had a sneaking suspicion that registering my name and address with the BMV might alert someone to my location so I preferred to remain anonymous. This was potentially
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3Chloe got in the car and sighed. She hated when anyone else used her car, but I brought her some coffee which is Seattle-ese for “I love you”. Chloe had the worst driving record
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1Renton was probably known best for being the burial place for Rock and Roll legend Jimmy Hendrix, but I knew it for burying someone else in the parking lot under the more recently
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0Around 10:30 am, I picked Cassandra up outside her apartment in north Seattle. I’d used her car the night before to scope out the place in Renton we were meeting at noon.
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7Anyone who might have glanced my way would think nothing of me walking through the neighborhood in the morning. It was a school day and kids carry bags to school all the time.
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1The language exposed his church-going nature and he finished and departed in record time. Not quite light out, but out of time for donuts, Mrs. O went back inside to collect
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1I snuck to the driver’s side of her giant Dodge and popped the hood. I slid out from behind the wheel and pushed the hood release completely and pushed it up.
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2By nightfall, I’d formulated a plan. If I followed a trail through the woods, I could get back home in fifteen minutes. I walked slowly and deliberately trying to make as little
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6I didn’t stop her as she walked into the woods. I spent the rest of the morning and afternoon breaking out the remaining windows of the factory with rocks. I was a little
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0My own father had said many unforgivable things about Indians even though his grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee. Somehow I always felt ashamed of this fact as if I were here