Greed | Greed
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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May.08.2013
Delphine was shocked when she first visited Palestine. She discovered a massive wall slicing brutally through towns and farms, keeping people from work, schools, hospitals, and sometimes their families. She found a land in which...
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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
Oval Office – 2014, Roosevelt-Hill’s second year as President
It was 6 a.m. and President Stephanie Roosevelt-Hill sat alone in the Oval office, wondering if her ethanol initiative plan would ever get off the ground. No matter how hard she tried, her ideas about...
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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.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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