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November 5, 2021
The iFactor
Chapter 13
by R.W.Van Sant
The small conference room was jam-packed. Matt was unacquainted with many of the people in attendance. Chairs and tables were lined up facing a podium and large monitor screen, which filled the far wall. Officer Perry was occupying one of the chairs. Detective Zimmerman, he noticed, was nowhere to be seen. He tried to suppress his delight. Matt took a chair as the…
October 29, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 12
The iFactor Chapter 12
By R.W. Van Sant
Matt left his psychiatrist’s office with new medications, a new therapeutic game in hand, and a smile on his face. His doctor said that his increase in symptom intensity was due to the new stresses and should quickly subside. Regaining his position, the doctor thought, most likely brought back many of the feelings and memories that Matt experienced when he lost his rank. It made…
October 22, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 11
The iFactor Chapter 11
By R.W. Van Sant
It was a very long day, and his next shift started in less than nine hours. All Matt wanted to do was get to his bed. His rumbling stomach prompted him to get some food. Lunch felt like a distant memory, and the pastries in the break room were gone. There was a small shop near his apartment that sold passable precooked burritos. That would do.
The woman with brown curly hair…
October 15, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 10
The iFactor Chapter 10
By R.W. Van Sant
The documents awaiting him were large, but not daunting. Most were follow up on his cases as a cargo inspector. There was a substantial amount of official acknowledgments and disclaimer verifications concerning the details of his increased security access to cities mainframe systems. He also had to sign off that he understood the United Nations directives regarding human rights…
October 8, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 9
The iFactor Chapter 9
by R.W. Van Sant
Matt was happy to learn that detectives and specialists had their own break room. There was a coffee maker with ceramic mugs piled neatly on the counter near them. On the other side of the counter rested a small refrigerator, which he discovered contained drinks and flavored coffee creamers. Although the table was smaller, it had one thing going for it, and it had an open box of…
October 1, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 8
The iFactor Chapter 8
By R.W. Van Sant
Detective Zimmerman was studying the documents that flowed across her monitor. She looked up momentarily as the two men entered, and then went back to her analysis. “Took you two long enough.”
“Sorry, a situation arose requiring a minor security presence.” Officer Perry said.
Zimmerman looked up a concerned look on her face. “What happened?” Her eyes bore into Matt.
“Domestic…
September 24, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 7
The iFactor Chapter 7
By R.W. Van Sant
Say Soy! was a chain of restaurants that sprung up in the outworld colonies promising superior tasting food within the restrictions of food type availability. Since every colony and space station had hydroponics gardens and soy crops, the bulk of the menu items were derived from those substances. In Sirius, as well as other outposts lucky enough to have fish and lizards, the…
September 17, 2021
The iFactor Chapter 6
The iFactor Chapter 6
By R.W. Van Sant
Matt stood facing the door. All he had to do was to walk through, and it would be as though the last ten years hadn’t happened. No, it wasn’t as easy as that, no one could escape their past. He may have gotten his career back, but he had acquired some emotional baggage, and he still had one hell of a past to live down.
Matt had been in the room beyond only once before, to…
September 13, 2021
The iFactor-Chapter 5
by R. W. Van Sant
The next morning, drained from insufficient sleep, Matt dressed and stumbled from the apartment. The chief ordered him to be on time, and Ken was the last person on the planet that he wanted to upset. Matt disliked the feeling of emotional detachment the medication caused; still, he took a double dose. After the incident at the port, he needed to keep his wits about him.
Matt…
