Book 3: Dobie’s Dilemma

Episode 11

© by William Arthur Holmes

Rock Star Quality

Miss Jessica was getting familiar with her new digs. TV and online news scarcely covered it. Reports were sterilized, almost an afterthought, and I had no friends left at Lehavre to ask for more details. All I could gather was that Jessica was now a resident of a nearby women’s prison.

I’ll bet she was very popular. She had that rock star quality.

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Back at the motel, after the dust settled, Darla sat at the vanity in the only chair in the room. Her phone lay beside her half-empty water bottle on the vanity’s faux-wood surface. She watched as beads of condensation trickled down the sides of the plastic bottle, pulling the phone a couple inches closer to her to keep it dry.

I leaned, arms crossed, against the dresser close to the door and asked what she was doing on her phone earlier when the bad guys were speeding away. “Were you posting it online, hoping it’d go viral?”

She laughed, unconcerned. “I wasn’t posting anything. I was texting them.”

“Them who?”