03 - Aftershocks
The walk upstairs to the apartment was torment. What was I going to tell Toby? How would he take it? Would he believe I didn't mean for it to happen? Questions ran through my head with each step. By time I made it to the top floor, I had determined...
07 - Of Mice and Men
The final three weeks of my summer business were taken up primarily by work at the Sunny Creek Golf Club at the west edge of town. Most of my clients didn't need much maintenance at this point, as the summer heat slowed their lawns' growth and kept...
06 - The Best Laid Plans
The rest of July was rather mundane. Various friends came back into town, or I'd find time to hang out with those who were still in town and we would get together for coffee or a meal. Some of them, I introduced to Craig, and some I didn't. It turned...
02 - Homecoming
It took just over an hour to get from Craig's house in Cedar City to mine, in St. George. That put me home in the early afternoon on Tuesday after school got out. Which meant I had the house to myself for a while. My folks were both at work. That gave...
01 - The Hitchhiker
I sometimes wonder what I was thinking, electing to go all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska, for school. Most of my friends were surprised, too. It's a football school, as far as anyone in St. George, Utah, is concerned. And that's all they care about. So...
The Moving Guy
The first summer I tried to live on my own, independent of my parents, did not turn out as hot as I had anticipated. College was out, and instead of traveling back to my hometown right away, I split an apartment with a friend in the hopes that I could...
05 - Point of View
The drive to Cedar City was fairly uneventful. Despite the distraction I had caused him while getting ready to go, I could tell that Craig was pretty nervous about confronting The Dogs, even from behind mirrored glass. "It's not like they won't know...
04 - Work Release
Craig was laid up for a week of no activity after his surgery, while I got busy restarting my summer yard work business. Teagan had gifted me with his black book of clients when he moved away at the end of last summer, doubling my potential client...
03 - Investigations
Harper being who she was at the hospital really helped expedite the process for Craig. Instead of taking the standard clip board with the admittance forms, she got on a computer set up with the new online database software, and called up Craig's file...
10 - Springs of Water
Day three of our vacation was usually spent relaxing. Stu and I would spend a couple days hiking around and adventuring, then spend the third day just enjoying each other's company in whatever shade was available in the south Utah desert (given that we...
09 - Plan B
"Listen, this is crazy," determined Stu, as we broke down the camp and made back towards the Jimmy. "We're letting Slick ruin our vacation, and really, the whole summer, just because of this one incident. Why don't we go across the interstate to Signal...
08 - Gang Aft Agley
The rest of our work on the golf course passed without - well, nearly without incident. Hayate did try once more to harass us, but Craig sent him packing with a quick wave of his phone, reminding him of the "evidence" that he had saved. In fact, he...