by Jim Heskett
Layne waved her close, and she shuffled across the room. Serena and Harry looked on, silent, faces dour. Layne couldn’t tell if they had known or hadn’t, but it didn’t matter. Everyone knew now.
When Cam neared him, Layne pulled her up into his hospital bed, ignoring the feeling that his insides were cutting themselves to pieces. And, he wrapped his arms around his daughter and hugged her. “Mommy is sad because a friend of hers got hurt.”
Cam pushed out her lip and swished it around a few times. “Are you sad, too?”
“No, little one. I have you. How could I ever be sad when I have you?”
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IN WHICH I TIME TRAVEL
On December 31st, 1999, I watched the midnight fireworks from the roof of the Funky Butt bar, raising my glass alongside the members of the house jazz band. We all ushered in the year 2000 together with a lot of hooping and hollering. I’ve been to New Orleans a handful of times, and the Funky Butt has always been my absolute favorite place in that town.
The Funky Butt bar closed after suffering damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They had hoped to reopen the bar, but it didn’t happen, at least, not as of this writing. In real life, at the time the interludes in this story takes place, the Funky Butt no longer existed. I hope you’ll forgive a little historical inaccuracy so I can include a spot near and dear to my heart.
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If you like thrillers, you’ll want to take a gander at my Micah Reed series. It’s where Layne Parrish got his start, actually. In particular, the Micah Reed thriller Shock Collar, serves as a "prequel" of sorts to the Layne Parrish solo series. See how a dog walk ending in bloodshed sends Micah on a quest for truth, and Layne on a path to reclaim his past and future. And find out more about how the Liberty Head nickels changed Layne’s life.
About the Author
Jim Heskett was born in the wilds of Oklahoma and raised by a pack of wolves with a station wagon and a membership card to the local public swimming pool. Just like the man in the John Denver song, he moved to Colorado in the summer of his twenty-seventh year and never looked back. Aside from an extended break traveling the world, he hasn’t let the Flatirons out of his sight.
He fell in love with writing at the age of fourteen with a copy of Stephen King’s The Shining. Poetry became his first outlet for teen angst, then later some terrible screenplays, and eventually short and long fiction. In between, he worked a few careers that never quite tickled his creative toes, and he never forgot about Stephen King. You can find him currently huddled over a laptop in an undisclosed location in Colorado, dreaming up ways to kill beloved characters.
He believes the huckleberry is the king of berries and refuses to be persuaded in any other direction. If you’d like to ask a question or just to say hi, stop by at www.jimheskett.com/about and fill out the contact form.