chapter 9 When all was said and done, the matter of human trafficking involving an American flight crew would be classified as an illegal conspiracy in Russia. The morning (as in just after midnight kind of morning) of the Vladivostok flight, Gabe had posed a question about what I recollected …
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The RED Eye Series: Russia VI
chapter 6 Diffused light tinged with red filtered into the narrow passage, hazy with smoke, setting the scene for what would forever be known to us as The Red Den of Sin– The doorway to everything and nothing I'd expected. There was no decor save the bodies snaked with tattoos and little …
Childhood Has Become a Bad Cliche
I think all of us have the habit of looking back to childhood for the answer. It's like a bad cliche that keeps popping up in a good book. It yanks us out of the present moment to focus a magnifying glass on the moments that imprinted on us, changed us forever. For me, it was my Dad's anger …