Tom Moses

The trio of cops groaned, and watched as their new team leader bolted across an open field with tiny explosions kicking up the grass all around him.  He sprint until every muscle in his legs screamed to make him stop, his lungs were about to burst when he saw Prodic’s body and he skidded across the wet grass and scrambled to check if he were all right.  Nearly lifeless eyes shuttered open and a smile tried to form on his lips.  He tried to speak, but only dribbled blood instead.

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Jimmie Willis poured through the protocol books, hoping one day he’d memorize everything he was required.  His partner never showed up to work, which only meant his workload had just doubled and he wondered if he could keep in contact with so many teams on a continuous frequency movement.  He kept peering over the GPS signals each vehicle was letting off, tracking each of their movements on the paper maps he kept just as the protocols demanded.  Everything was going just as it should, until the cursor with the letter “E” vanished from his screen.

“Echo one team leader, this is Jericho, how copy?” read more »

Just as evolution takes it part to cleanse the earth of useless species, it can be said the same thing happens to societies.  Small towns will eventually give way to larger districts, small cities and eventually a sprawling metropolitan area will consume what had once been just a small frontier town on the basin of a river.  This is the same sort of story that happens to locales all over the country, but there are few cities quite like River City in the heart of America’s Midwest.  Snuggled in close to a large enough river, smugglers found it home almost two centuries before and until recently the criminal element decided to grow quietly, content with its place in the socio-economic system.  But just as evolution had it in for the dodo, it seemed too that River City was doomed to a life of lessening social grace every year.

Now Entering:  River City, home of the 1993 state champions, girls volleyball team.

Population:  1,203,559

Est. 1798

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