Status Updates From The Rule of Threes (Special...

Nice. I will hope for the best & assume that Constant eventually gets her man.

Jason was good-looking & knew there were plenty of lonely hearts w/checkbooks in this world. Those were the scams he'd run for his parents. Younger man, older woman. "Knife through butter," his father had once said.

Missouri - state w/, it turns out, more caves than any other, seven thousand or so. He was inspired to go there because of a book he'd just read & reread for school, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

The kid had three interests in life. Reading, first. Video gaming, second. And, third, visiting women who did not want to be visited.

It dated to years before. You might say to a time when they were innocent, but given their parents? That's not a word that ever applied to the children, not since they were out of Pampers.

You might want to think about spending another night or two here. Brunswick stew? Your hotel dining room? Best in the state. Despite the fact they don't make it w/squirrel.

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No skin off my nose or teeth or whatever skin comes offa in that expression.

bullet had not nicked vital carotid or jugular but there are apparently plenty of vessels in that area that bleed like hell. Tremain's pressure, though, kept her going until Bowman County EMT, who'd done tours overseas, could perform field surgery, patching her up enough for transport to real OR.

Here's an order for needlepoint of tree where Black man was lynched.

Christ have mercy ... You think they're racist?

No ... they're like the best meth or opioid dealers - they don't use their own product. But they're responsible for even more destruction that way.

they had a related business. You know ... needlepoints?

Yes, I do. She's got some talent, according to my wife.

You know what they depicted?

Never looked.

Sites of Confederate victories, slave trade harbors, Native American massacres. The motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot - big market for those.

he'd start the listings at ridiculously high prices & keep it firm w/buyers of color, but drop it drastically when a white buyer made a lowball offer.

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quoted insurance that nobody could afford

must've leaned on him to do some work he didn't want to do. Drugs, protection, human trafficking. I think he couldn't take it.

He sold things that were defective or weren't what they seemed to be. Just on the borderline of legality, it looks like: stocks, artwork, real estate, sports collectibles. They made a hundred thousand selling Soviet & German war bonds that they claimed the government were just about to recognize & pay off.

Like everyone with a gun, Marlowe was seeking a target but hesitating to return fire; you never shot blind, especially in a public park.

Goodness. *Another* twist!

Answering any number of questions she hadn't asked. Right out of Guilty Party playbook.

body language. one category of subject that can trick you is sociopaths. To them there's no such thing as deception. Their kinesics are same when they're telling truth or lying.

Pictures of murdered women? They look nice & incriminating - snuff porn. But hard copies? Who prints out stuff like that? You look @ them on phone or computer.

Take eye drops. How would they get on bodies? What? They dripped out of his eyes? And @ all 3 scenes? Now, hairs. How often do they fall out? And w/out bulb attached?

Which would've given us DNA from start.

There was loud snap, audible even over sound of her squealing, and evening was filled w/crack of bone after all.

She'd wondered what reaction would be, taking life. She'd believed she could do it. But she'd never believed how much act would fulfill her. She felt odd sense - pride? ... that she was part of BRK story. Myths are only fiction until you bring them to life.

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She could hear in memory crack of bone once more. And needed to hear, feel again. Sex ... opioids ...