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May.18.2013
Chapter 12
Late Friday Night/Early Saturday Morning - Chicago
Athletes sleep soundly. A finely tuned body usually houses a finely tuned mind. Tamika Smith was an athlete. She had not played a college basketball game in five years, but you wouldn't know it by the...
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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.17.2013
Chapter 10
Early Saturday Morning - Chicago
The disappearance of Marcus Witherow was the biggest news story in Chicago since 1871 when Kate O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern that burned down the whole town. The television was full of reports. The papers were...
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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.09.2013
Chapter 8
Late Thursday Night - Chicago
Marcus closed his eyes when the Escalade started to roll down the boat ramp into the river. With his two oversized hands wrapped around the gun hand like corn fritter pancakes wrapped around a breakfast sausage, 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
Friday Morning -Chicago
As he drove back to the hotel from the hospital, Sledge Walker kept thinking about what Pam said as she was wheeled out of the emergency room, I can’t believe they really did it.
Who were they? What had they...
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Mar.02.2013
Over the next several weeks, I have the pleasure and privilege of being the launch blog for a few talented authors on their latest blog tours. To kick things off, here is my friend from across the sea: Kate Tenbeth.
ON WRITING UNLUCKY DIP I wrote the first draft of Unlucky Dip over...
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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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