The Cocoon Never Forgets

This has been one hell of a ride, hasn’t it? Time to let the curtains down on this absolute thriller from Kay and see if any clarity will be brought to light… THREE MONTHS LATER “Did you find anything?” Detective Bowser had taken a skeleton crew of men to the long-defunct Ellis Road store. They’d […]

PRESENT DAY Chris Bowser was escorted into a private conference room in the Express Plaza Hotel, where he saw five men and women seated in high chairs arranged in a horseshoe. There was a regular-sized chair in front of them. Athena motioned him to the chair and he sat down. “You were thoroughly searched and

PRESENT DAY “You want a beer, Connie?” Sukuyaa and Connie were back at the cabin. They’d watched the rest of the meeting and known what the cover story was going to be. Connie was too stunned to make a choice but she was convinced they needed to know more, so they left without blowing up

THIRTY YEARS AGO “Did we really just pull that off?” Markham was driving the SUV with Barry and Les in the back. He was so excited at the success of the operation they’d just ran. “Brother, you were so convincing back there too. You f*cked the sh*t out of that sex doll!” Barry laughed and

FIVE YEARS AGO Mina’s eyes slowly opened, and the sunlight gave them the rudest welcome possible. The chair she’d fallen asleep in faced a window, and the sun had no mercy on her hungover eyes. She managed to turn aside just enough to avoid the direct light, and noticed Givens’ absence just before she heard

FIVE YEARS AGO “Man, I don’t remember getting this drunk off of so little alcohol. I feel like I’ve been drugged.” Mina and Major Givens were having drinks at his house. They’d started this tradition after he’d gone through a bitter divorce and needed to let loose. She was the one woman he would never

FIVE YEARS AGO Lucas Simpson woke up and found his wife was absent from his side. Her side of the bed was cold, so he knew she’d been gone for a while. He sat up in the bed and stretched, trying to rid himself of the last vestige of sleep that hung around his eyes.

PRESENT DAY The sirens of the ambulances and firetrucks pouring into the Port of Stilts could be heard miles away in Red Cape, which was along the way to Sukuyaa’s destination. Thomas was coming to just as she pulled into what looked like a rest stop. He had a nasty pain pulsing through his head,

FIVE YEARS AGO The small get-together could not be going any better. A few officers from Mina’s unit, as well as the distinguished guests at the ceremony, were mixing and mingling with each other as the music set the mood. It was an afternoon deal, but one would’ve thought it was a semi-formal evening event

PRESENT DAY Markham’s eyes slowly fluttered open. His first sights were blur, then dark, then his conscious kicked in at a snail’s pace, but it was enough to get him a bit more situated. All he saw was black; this was not where he was a few minutes ago. It felt like moving mountains with