Knockdown: a Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
“But instead she woke bright-eyed, long before anyone else in the house was up and about.
Coffee in hand, she took the dogs out into the backyard. With a hot-pink sun just rising through the fog that still hung on the horizon and the sky deep blue overhead, she breathed in the cool air gratefully.
New day, she thought. Another chance to put the past behind me, try to make up for it.
Or try to do better. Funny how a faint reminder of the bad old days could hit her so hard, this long afterward.
Pu...t her in a funk, mess up her sleep, get her seeing threats where there weren’t any. Or maybe there weren’t.… But enough of that; the sky brightened as she finished her coffee and went in.
After feeding the dogs, she took a second cup to the front porch where she’d been scraping so diligently the day before, and where her unsettled mood had begun with the ring of a bike bell.
No unpleasant stranger pedaled ominously on Key Street now, though. Instead she had the town all to herself, or so it seemed from the silent houses and the empty sidewalks.MoreLess
Coffee in hand, she took the dogs out into the backyard. With a hot-pink sun just rising through the fog that still hung on the horizon and the sky deep blue overhead, she breathed in the cool air gratefully.
New day, she thought. Another chance to put the past behind me, try to make up for it.
Or try to do better. Funny how a faint reminder of the bad old days could hit her so hard, this long afterward.
Pu...t her in a funk, mess up her sleep, get her seeing threats where there weren’t any. Or maybe there weren’t.… But enough of that; the sky brightened as she finished her coffee and went in.
After feeding the dogs, she took a second cup to the front porch where she’d been scraping so diligently the day before, and where her unsettled mood had begun with the ring of a bike bell.
No unpleasant stranger pedaled ominously on Key Street now, though. Instead she had the town all to herself, or so it seemed from the silent houses and the empty sidewalks.MoreLess
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