Series: My Stepfather Sent Me To Patrol A Forest Sector With Standalone Wooden Stairs, Then Erased My Coordinates From The Dispatch Server

Appraiser Coyle dropped his clipboard. It clattered against the shed floor. He shook violently, his eyes darting around the room as Jonah calmly laid out [more…]

Arthur sat down heavily on a wooden workbench inside the silent shed. His gaze was fixed on the expired lease document on the table, then [more…]

Using Coyle’s key, Jonah opened Arthur’s private office safe inside the main station building. The heavy steel door swung inward with a faint groan. Beyond [more…]

Jonah locked Coyle inside the gear room, the heavy external deadbolt clicking shut with a final sound. Just as he pocketed the key, Arthur’s truck [more…]

The confrontation inside the Sector 4 administrative office lasted nearly an hour. It was marked almost entirely by heavy, suffocating silence. Jonah did not yell, [more…]

Nine days later. The breakroom at the Cascade Ridge administrative center was cold, lit by humming fluorescent tubes at 5:15 AM. The air smelled of [more…]