When Peter and Ralph got back under the bridge, Eric was gone but the box was still sitting where Ralph had left it. “Where’d he go?”, asked Ralph. “Who knows? What is Kurt looking at?” “He’s facing that direction, toward the cul de sac”, Ralph said pointing beyond the blackberry brambles. “And I bet that [...]

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“Give me the cheat sheets. I’ll dole out clues when you beg for them. You’re the one that picked a high difficulty multipart cache to start with”, Peter said, grabbing the paper. Ralph kept his eyes on the trees right above six feet from the ground, looking for a hole or crevice that could be [...]

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OK, there are all these threads and stories swirling around, and I need to connect the dots before I’m done. Here’s my attempt to suture one part, a critical part, into the rest of the mess: Ollie Svenberg lived his entire life in a circle twenty miles in diameter, centered on the house his grandfather [...]

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So, as I alluded to before, I have no choice but to soldier on with the novel writing. I did two sessions today to catch up with the quota. Only 7 days left and I think I’m pretty much on the right flight path to end the story pretty near 50,000 words. Today I’m at [...]

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So, here we are again. I’ve got 28,413 words in the can and I’m still trying to weave 3 histories and 4 people into a cohesive plot arc. It might happen, we’ll see. “Hey, where have you guys been? I’ve been waiting forever for you to set up!”, joked Eric. “Very funny”, said Ralph. Peter [...]

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