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Swan Dive! Ch. 32: One Last Hit?

December 28, 2022

Keeping secrets challenged most people. Not Kim Phillips. Even as a girl, Kim – who everyone knew then as Kate, Kate Leary – never gossiped, told tales out of school or spread rumors. She was no tattle tale. No snitch. As he father often said, “No rats allowed in this house.” One morning about 4:00 […]

Swan Dive! Ch. 31: Assassination Anticipation

December 21, 2022

Killing isn’t supposed to be easy. Neither is justifying the grisly act. But ask anybody who commits such a ghastly deed and he or she will likely explain away the dire circumstances that led to that dark finality, explaining exactly why death happened as it did. Randall Lark killed on behalf of his government. He […]

Swan Dive! Ch. 30: Whacking the Whackers

December 14, 2022

Still hearing shrill voices in her head but not telling anyone, relief washed over Kim Phillips that the “girls,” as she now called them, were keeping to themselves. The exorcism must have scared split personalities Shannon and Tara into some kind of weird mental demilitarized zone as Kim tried to keep going about her business […]

Swan Dive! Ch. 29: Apocalypse When?

December 7, 2022

Kim Phillips slept soundly with no trace of demons in her head while Marty Durkin and Randall Lark sat staring at each other across her condo kitchen table. “This might be a good time to talk,” Durkin said. “Whatever,” Randall said. “What kind of answer is that? You know that’s your problem,” Durkin said. “You […]

Swan Dive! Ch. 28: So God Made a Fighter

November 30, 2022

Some short, some tall, including a Mexican little people tag team wearing rubber masks that covered their heads and a trans woman who billed herself as the “Amazon Zombie,” a dozen hungover professional wrestlers, some clothed in mismatched torn tights, multicolored capes, scuffed black combat boots, fedoras with feathers and worse, jumped from four Dodge […]

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