ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article Directory“Two more girls?” I said. “Sisters?” “Read.” Andrew and Catherine Gaidelas, forty-eight and forty-five, respectively, haddisappeared two months after Tori Giacomo. The couple, married twenty years with no children, were owners of a beautyparlor in Toledo, Ohio, called Locks of Luck. In L.A. for a springvacation, they’d been staying in Sherman Oaks with Cathy’s sister […]
In my office, a dusty stack of psych journals beckoned. A twenty-pagetreatise on the eye-blink reflex in schizophrenic Hooded rats lowered myeyelids. I went down to the pond and fed the koi. For fish, they’re smart, havelearned to swarm the moment I come down the stairs. It’s nice to be wanted. Warm air and sloshing […]
“Sounds nice.” I told him about driving up to Latigo, left out the rest of my motor tourand the memories it had evoked. He said, “No kidding. I was up there myself, early in the morning. Pretty,no?” “And out of the way.” “I talked to a few neighbors, including the old guy Michaela scared when […]
Who was to say? I’d stopped without meaning to in front of Peaty’s building. One of thelittle kids waved at me and I waved back and both parents turned. Shaved-headDad glared. I sped off. No action at the PlayHouse, same for the big cantaloupe-painted complex on Overland that DylanMeserve had left without notice. Shabby place. […]
Maybe because of the isolation. I had yet to encounter another vehiclechallenging the mountains. I drove another few miles, managed to turn around on a skinny ribbon ofasphalt, hooked right on Kanan, and drove into the Valley. Tori Giacomo’s last known address was a dingy white multiplex. Old cars andtrucks filled the street. True to […]
