The Delay
Rachael
The house is too quiet except for the sound of glass clinking and the heavy drag of boots on the floor. I’m ten again, curled on the couch with my knees pulled up, watching shadows bend and stretch against the walls.
*“Looks just like her,” my father slurs, voice a jagged blade. “That who...
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Chapters
1. Send The Pain Below
2. Dead End Job in a Podunk Town
3. Who Is Willy?
4. It's A Body
5. Homicides Don't Happen Here
6. It's Just My Mind
7. Echoes of Him
8. I will Believe It
9. Bitter Beer, Sweeter Eyes
10. I Guess We'll Find Out
11. Crossing Lines
12. Professional Complications
13. Evidence and Instinct
14. Alone, Almost
15. Constant, Simmering Paranoia
16. Fragments
17. The Beginning
18. Fair Enough
19. In Good Hands
20. The Delay
21. She Didn't Suffer
22. Comfort and Violation
23. You're Cranky When You Wake Up
24. Liquid Armor
25. Lessons In the Woods
26. It Was So Dark Down There
27. Dead Beat In the Shadows
28. Brief Relief
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