Written in Stone
“—EGYPTIAN PROVERB “We have to call it an evening,” Olivia told the rest of the Bayside Book Writers apologetically.
Chief Rawlings remained outside, kicking chucks of gravel as he made another phone call.
Laurel was the first to recognize that something grave had occurred. She tucked Harris’s chapter back into a folder and clutched it against her chest. Olivia’s eye was drawn to the red and pink bubbly hearts on its cover. She imagined a working human heart, sinewy and slick, its powerf...ul muscle contracting. She saw the same heart falling still, the blood pooling in the four chambers. How had this mighty muscle reacted to the venom of an eastern diamondback rattlesnake? Had it beat double-time? Or had it burned in those last moments of life as the poison coursed through its valves?
“Are you okay?” Laurel’s voice brought Olivia back from her gruesome reverie.
“A woman I met for the first time last week has passed away,”MoreLess
Chief Rawlings remained outside, kicking chucks of gravel as he made another phone call.
Laurel was the first to recognize that something grave had occurred. She tucked Harris’s chapter back into a folder and clutched it against her chest. Olivia’s eye was drawn to the red and pink bubbly hearts on its cover. She imagined a working human heart, sinewy and slick, its powerf...ul muscle contracting. She saw the same heart falling still, the blood pooling in the four chambers. How had this mighty muscle reacted to the venom of an eastern diamondback rattlesnake? Had it beat double-time? Or had it burned in those last moments of life as the poison coursed through its valves?
“Are you okay?” Laurel’s voice brought Olivia back from her gruesome reverie.
“A woman I met for the first time last week has passed away,”MoreLess
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