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THE LISTENER
by
Christina Dodd
Misfit and computer security expert Cornelia Markum hacks into a text
conversation between unidentified Virtue Falls residents … and realizes
she’s stumbled into a murder plot.
Welcome to Virtue Falls
Founded 1902
Your Vacation Destination on the Washington Coast
Home of the World Famous Virtue Falls Canyon
Population 2487
At two-thirty pm on a Thursday afternoon, Coast Guard Commander
Kateri Kwinault shoved open the door to the Oceanview Café, stalked
inside, seated herself on a stool at the lunch counter and slapped her palm
flat on the Formica surface. “I’ll take a beer.”
Rainbow finished wiping off a table, balanced the dirty dishes on one
arm, and strolled over to the wall behind the counter. She dumped the
dishes in one plastic pan, the silverware in another. In a tone of colorless
courtesy, she said, “I’m sorry, we here at the Oceanview Café don’t have a
beer license.”
Kateri slapped the counter again. “I’ll take a bourbon on the rocks.”
“I’m sorry, we here at the Oceanview Café don’t have a liquor
license.”
“I’ll take a puff of weed.”
Rainbow put her fists on her ample hips. “I’m sorry, we here at the
Oceanview Café don’t have a marijuana license.”
Kateri sighed. “I’ll take a full-fat, full-sugar, half-caff latte with two
pumps of vanilla.”
“That I can do.” Rainbow Breezewing, waitress and all-round Virtue
Falls busybody, hustled to the coffee machine and programmed it then,
before she punched go, she returned, leaned down, and looked deep into
Kateri’s eyes. “Real cow’s milk? Because you know what that does to your
digestion.”
“I truly need full fat cow’s milk,” Kateri said.
“Do you want to spend the afternoon being gassy?” Rainbow leaned
closer.
Kateri backed up. “Fine. Soy milk. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s
hanging with someone who saw me grow up.”
“You could go to the Halfway Bar.” Rainbow put the latte in front of
Kateri.
“Yes, because that’s a classy place for a single woman to hang out.”
And for all her joking around, Kateri didn’t drink. For most native
American, liquor created results even more dire than cow’s milk. “Besides,
I’m on duty.”
“So you took a break?”
“No use being the station commander if I can’t give myself some time
off when I need it. I took the new kid out for a trial run up the coast.” Kateri
took a sip and grimaced. “Have I mentioned I hate soy milk?”
“We have almond milk.”
“It’s too sweet.”
Rainbow leaned her elbows against the counter and propped her chin
in her hands. “He didn’t work out?”
“He compared the Pacific Ocean with New York Harbor.”
Rainbow cackled like a hen.
“Precisely.” Kateri took another sip and put the cup down.
“What’s his name again?”
“Lt. JG Landon Adams. His uncle was a senator. His uncle got voted
out, so Landon Landlubber” — Kateri laughed, and realized she’d just
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