betrayal | betrayal
May.05.2013
She was excited when the engraved invitation arrived in the mail.
Her exile seemed interminable.
Now a reprieve, a chance to step back into the circle
she had walked away from, after the fall from grace.
In truth, the group had banished her, for the crime of betrayal.
She broke the code of...
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Apr.30.2013
A lie of omission is a method of deception that uses the technique of remaining silent when speaking the truth would significantly alter another person’s capacity to make an informed decision.
Many people believe that remaining silent when ethical behavior calls for one to speak up is...
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Apr.02.2013
Chapter 11
Friday Night – Chicago
The cheeseburgers seemed to be just what the doctor ordered for Marcus Witherow. He was grateful for what Jimmy Rae was doing for him, but he knew he couldn't stay in the crack house. It was after dark and he knew that Jimmy Rae's...
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Mar.13.2013
Chapter 9
Friday Night - Chicago
“Come on Marcus,” the teacher urged him. “Just spit it out, you can do it.”
A young Marcus was standing in front of his fifth-grade class, trying to recite some of “Twas The Night Before Christmas.” He...
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Mar.08.2013
Chapter 7
Eleven Years Earlier – Pinopolis, South Carolina
Marcus Witherow just finished his last junior high basketball game. He scored 31 points in a game that his team won 43-27. Witherow sat by his locker in the room that smelled strongly of wet socks, jocks...
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Mar.03.2013
Chapter 6
White House, Washington, D.C.
The day after the funeral, President Wyckoff and Dee Walker had an early breakfast in a small dining room near the Oval Office in the White House.
“Dee, I want a meeting with the attorney general before lunch,” Wyckoff told Walker...
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Feb.25.2013
Chapter 5
North Alabama – Two Years Earlier
Tamika Smith grew up poor in Owens Cross Roads, Alabama. Although she didn’t have a lot of life’s finer things, she did have something that mattered – two parents who believed in love and hard work. Love for the Smiths meant a close...
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Feb.19.2013
CHAPTER 4
Drake Hotel, Chicago.
“Thanks Chris. We can only hope that the body of Marcus Witherow is not in that car,” Dan Patrick of ESPN said, ending the segment from the edge of Lake Michigan.
“In news from the National Hockey League, Pittsburgh defenseman Pepe L’Pue...
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Feb.17.2013
Chapter 3
Eleven Years Earlier – Small-town South Carolina
Seven hundred and twenty three people lived in Pinopolis, South Carolina, a sleepy little southern community situated on an isthmus of land that sticks into Lake Moultrie, which is located just above...
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Feb.16.2013
Chapter 2
8 a.m. Friday Morning – Drake Hotel, Chicago
Sledge Walker crawled out of the bed, staggered blindly into the wall, but somehow found his way to the bathroom in the plush suite on the 27th floor of the Drake Hotel. The Drake, one of Chicago’s landmark...
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