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- Authors: Eden Winters
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Ambulances and cop cars flashed rhythmic strobes. Dark uniforms
dotted the landscape, interspersed with yellow police tape.
Lieutenant Morrisey James’s every instinct screamed for him to retreat.
Shut the fuck up! Morrisey shouted back to himself. Because of, or
perhaps despite, his total lack of instinct for self-preservation, he exited the
car, pulled himself up to his full lanky six-foot height, checked his trusty
.38, Agnes, nestled in her shoulder holster, and waited for his partner, Will,
to join him on the sidewalk. Maybe he wasn’t totally devoid of selfpreservation if those instincts kept insisting that he’d need Agnes.
Heat and humidity seized Morrisey in a grubby fist. Summer would be
hell if he already wanted to ditch the coat and tie in spring.
“This one’s gonna be bad.” Will brushed his fingers through his light
brown waves, wearing a slightly rumpled suit and Morrisey’s tie. Will was
fastidious to a fault, so the ketchup stain on his would’ve meant going home
to change. Morrisey had traded with him, not giving two shits about stained
ties. Hell, folks expected him to appear unkempt. The thinning patches on
Will’s head hadn’t been there when they’d teamed up six years ago. Neither
had the sprinkling of white among the darker stands.
He’d just turned thirty-two.
The job took its toll.
“They’re all bad.” And growing steadily worse. Morrisey inhaled deeply.
No need to imagine what he’d find. Each scene always exceeded his worst
expectations, regardless of how jaded time and experience had made him.
“Let’s do this.”
While not considered a good area to live in, this neighborhood on the
outskirts of Atlanta was nowhere near the worst. A pall hung over the area,
undeterred by any amount of afternoon sun. The small white frame house
blended with many more on the street: paint peeling, shutter hanging at an
angle, a tangle of knee-high weeds in the front yard. An aging Ford Bronco
sat in the driveway, a dent in the front quarter panel. A bunch of brightly
colored balloons floated above the mailbox. Not good. Balloons on
mailboxes usually meant a kid’s party. Morrisey upped his estimate of how
bad this day might get.
Together, he and Will approached the house. Blood spatter on the living
room windows hinted at a troubling scene awaiting them inside. Morrisey
exchanged a glance with Will. “Why do we do this again?”
Will shrugged. “Because somebody’s gotta.” Same question, same
answer. Same haggard expressions on their faces.
Same shit, different day.
Anything to distract themselves from what they feared they’d see inside.
Their shoes clicked out a six-beat on the steps leading to the porch.
“Hy-yuck!” A uniformed cop retched over the porch railing, losing his
lunch into the boxwoods by the door.
Yep, definitely not good.
The officer’s partner patted his back, making “there, there” noises.
Rookies.
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