The Grim ReaperChapter 10: Romance free porn video

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A week after my birthday I got new casts. That took me most of a day, because they had to do a bunch of X-rays first, and then cut the old casts off and fiddle with everything. My foot cast wasn’t all that much different, but I was fitted with a walking cast, a boot that strapped around it and fastened with Velcro. That made it bulky, and I needed to put it on after I got dressed. Still, anything was better than the wheelchair! That got sent back to the rental company, along with the crutch, and I began to hobble around with a cane. Mom told me that meant I could take the school bus again.

The pants situation also improved. Grandpa took one look at my flapping pants leg early on and the next day brought over something he called a grommet punch. He took a pair of my pants and punched a line of metal rings down both sides of the opened seam, and then told me to run some shoelaces through them. It sounded a little wacky, but then I tried it and it worked pretty good, so we repeated the process on the other pair of pants. At home I mostly wore sweatpants, but that didn’t work so well at school. When I was out of my casts entirely, I was also going to be out two pair of pants, but I would outgrow them anyway.

My arm cast was removed, and I got a new one, along with some changes to the splints on my fingers. My progress was considered good, but would still take some time, at least another month. Doctor Tolliver told me I could start taking driver’s ed the end of March, and that was my first call that night, to my Uncle Bob.

I also told Kelly, since once I got my license, I had promised her that I would take her out on a date. We had already gone out on a date, a double date with some friends, one where a parent didn’t have to drive us and pick us up. Tony Vancuso was in the tenth grade like I was, and although he didn’t have his license yet, his girlfriend, Sherry Vlacic, did, and she borrowed her mom’s Caravan, and we all went to McDonald’s and the movies over at the Matucket Town Square Cineplex. It was informal, but Kelly wore a denim miniskirt and a nice top and some high heels, and she just looked amazing! She was walking with me through the mall, and you could see guys turning to watch her walk.

Not a whole lot happened on that date, because it was a double date. Well, we did go parking up behind the reservoir, but I was stuck in the middle because of my casts, and Sherry and Tony were in the front seat with a console separating them, and after five minutes a Matucket Police Department cruiser pulled up and sent us all packing. On Monday, Tony told me that double dates were out in the future. He and Sherry would be finding a different spot, and they planned to get in the back. I wished him well and told Kelly we had to figure something else out. Over the next few weeks, we scrounged up rides with another couple of friends.

In the back of my head, I was still a bit worried that I was taking advantage of Kelly. She assured me, however, I wasn’t. Back after I got out of the hospital, she said, “Grim, if Randy hadn’t been around, and none of this had ever happened, and I came back to school, would you have asked me out on a date?”

I blinked at that. Tilly had been in the picture, but she dumped me as soon as I said hello to Kelly. “Uh, yeah, I guess so.”

“And do you think I would have said yes?”

“Uh ... I guess so,” What if that was the wrong answer? What if it was the right answer? I could be screwed either way!

“Grim! You’re hopeless! You’re one of my oldest friends in Matucket! Of course, I would have said yes!” she protested.

I had to grin at that. “I may be hopeless, but the one thing I know is that there is no ’of course’ about girls!”

“Well, if I was going to date you before Randy messed things up, don’t you think I would date you after? You are thick!”

I shut up after that, partly because Kelly started kissing me and I was returning the favor. Later, though, I was in the kitchen with Mom, watching her load the dishwasher. “Mom, back when you and Dad were dating, did he chase you or did you chase him?”

She laughed loudly at that. “Oh, Grim, you ask the craziest questions! Why?”

“Just curious.”

“It’s Kelly, isn’t it?” She ignored my protest and answered, “A little bit of both, I guess. Let’s just say that your father was chasing me, but I wasn’t trying too hard to escape. Kelly the one doing the chasing?”

“I think so.”

She gave me a hopeless look and rolled her eyes. “Are you trying to escape?”

“Uh, actually I think I might just surrender!”

That earned another laugh. “Oh, Grim, you are too much!”

By the end of March Uncle Bob was able to begin teaching me to drive. I had already gotten an instructional permit before, so I could read the books he had given me and take the written test. Now I could get him to give me the actual driving lessons in a car and get the number of hours behind the wheel to get my license. I had to have an adult with me while I was driving, but Mom and Dad said they would do that. Uncle Bob had this neat old junker he had rigged up so that he could sit on the passenger side and drive. He had a couple of pedals that were linked to the accelerator and brake pedals on the driver side, and it had a second steering wheel on the right side that could be removed and had a chain link to the regular steering wheel.

After a week driving me around, he dumped me on Mom and Dad to work on. “My nerves are completely shot. It’s your turn now,” was how he announced it. At least my right foot could operate the gas and brake pedals. Dad commented that it was a good thing we didn’t have a stick shift, which I didn’t understand, but I kept quiet. I kept the speed down and drove using my left hand. After that, whenever he or Mom had to drive around doing errands, I was grabbed to chauffeur them around.

The first time I drove Dad over to the Walmart and back. When we got home, Mom asked, “How’d it go?”

“I don’t drink anywhere near enough,” he replied, causing Mom to laugh. She told me she needed to go over to the Home Depot to get some fertilizer, so I needed to keep my jacket on. When we got back, she told Dad I wasn’t all that bad. He just shivered and rolled his eyes.

The plan was that I would keep driving them around until I got all my casts off. Only then would I be allowed to take my driving test down at DMV. Finally, the day arrived, a Monday, and I was way overdue by then! You hear stories about how everything itches under a cast, but until it happens to you, you just don’t believe it. I think I scratched everything for a full ten minutes until Doctor Friedell laughed and told me to knock it off. After that he had me walk around his office and run a few dexterity tests. He was quite worried that I couldn’t catch a ball, right up until Mom laughed and told him I couldn’t catch one before the fight. My other nickname around the football team, besides ‘The Grim Reaper’, was ‘Stonehands.’

That night Dad asked how I was feeling when he got home, and then tossed me the keys to Mom’s Sienna. “We need to run some errands. Let’s go,” he announced.

I looked at Mom, but she just shrugged. I put my socks and shoes on (plural, which was long overdue) and followed Dad outside. He took the shotgun position, and I slid behind the wheel. It felt kind of weird driving with both hands. “Where we going?” I asked.

“Get on I-20, head towards Atlanta.”

He still hadn’t told me where we were going, but it wasn’t like I didn’t know how to get to the entrance ramp from Matucket onto the Interstate. Matucket had three exits off I-20, one for East Matucket, one for Matucket, and one on the west side of town, near West Springs. I got on at the main Matucket ramp and headed east.

Just then Dad’s cell phone beeped. He pulled it out, looked at the display, and smiled. “Hi, Dad. What’s up...” I kept an eye on the road, but I listened to the conversation between Dad and Grandpa. “No ... not doing anything, but I can’t come over. I’ve got Junior Johnson with me and we’re running moonshine over to Atlanta and back ... Yeah, I know I’m taking my life in my hands, but it’s my life ... Okay, I’ll let Maureen know that you’ll see that she gets the inheritance ... I’m feeling the love, Dad. Talk soon.” He hung up and put the phone in his pocket.

“Very funny, Dad.”

“Your grandfather told me not to let the revenooers get you.”

“Ha ... ha ... ha.”

“Head to Atlanta.”

We drove into Atlanta and then Dad had me get off the highway. We drove by the Georgia Dome, went up by Georgia Tech, and then down to Georgia State. After that we went over to Peachtree and from there back to the highway. “Take it home, Grim.”

All the way back home, Dad talked to me about driving and girls. Specifically, he made two very definite points. “Grim, you get caught driving drunk, don’t even bother calling home. You’ll be safer in jail.” That was the first thing he told me, along with a few frills and extras. The second point was, “Whatever you have going on with Kelly, you behave yourself. She’s a nice girl. Don’t you ever - ever! - do something with her that you would be ashamed to tell your mother. Is that understood?”

I had to laugh at that. “Dad, I think it’s more likely that Kelly has plans like that than I do!”

“That’s your problem, sonny, not mine! Just don’t get caught!”

We stopped at a barbecue place in Lithia Springs for dinner. Dad had a beer, but I got a Coke. Then it was back on I-20 to go home. Once inside the house, Mom asked, “You survive?”

“You talking to me or Dad?” I asked.

She snorted and wandered back to the kitchen. Dad simply said, “Smart ass!” He tossed me a set of keys. “Keep ‘em. Fuck up and you lose ‘em. Got it?”

“Got it!” I stared at the keys for a moment and then put them in my pocket.

Wednesday morning, Dad took the Sienna and drove me down to the DMV office. I spent the morning in various lines, taking the written test, taking an eye test, and driving around a course. Dad read a paperback the entire time. Finally, I was placed against a wall and had a photo taken. “Now, get back in line and you can get your temporary license. The real one comes in the mail. Congratulations! Drive carefully.”

That was it! I had my kiddie license! I wouldn’t get my full license until I turned eighteen, but as long as I didn’t fuck up before then I was golden! Date night Friday!

“Mom! Can I borrow the car Friday?” I called out.

“Will the lawn be mowed by Friday?”

My eyes popped out at that. Shit! “Jack, I need a favor!” I ran up to our room to do some trading.

I told Kelly that I had passed my driving test and got my license, and she gave me a big hug. I was right when I said that she was the one chasing me. She asked, “So we’re going to the movies Friday night?”

“Whatever you want, babe.”

She gave me another hug and scampered off to class, giggling with her friends as she did so. Bo Effner looked at me and said, “Man, you are the definition of pussy-whipped!”

I smiled and flipped him the bird. “Tell me she couldn’t whip you?”

“It might be worth it at that,” he agreed. “Let me know when she dumps your sorry ass and I’ll find out.” Bo changed girlfriends about as often as Randy Holden did, but he had nowhere near the reputation of Candy Pants. He just didn’t want to settle down. I had always been in longer relationships. They might have lasted only a few months, but that still beat Bo.

“Thanks. I’ll let Kelly know.”

Friday night was only a day away, but I couldn’t really concentrate on anything else. Mom chewed me out that evening for daydreaming while I did my homework. “Football isn’t the only sport that will get cut if you don’t keep your grades up!” I blushed at that and finished my Algebra Two assignment.

Friday after school I rode the bus home, and then immediately took a shower and changed clothing. It was an informal date in that it was just going to be fast food and a movie at the mall. I was supposed to pick her up at six, and I was in the living room checking my watch every thirty seconds by half past five. Mom simply rolled her eyes.

“I want a full tank of gas in it when you get home,” she told me before I left. I opened my mouth to protest but she overrode me. “Get over it! We aren’t charging you for insurance, so you can at least cover some gas money. Figure that into your budget for the future.” She also chewed on me for a few minutes about making sure I kept the Sienna clean, and not picking up hitchhikers, and driving carefully, and not drinking, and every other thing under the sun. Finally, at about ten of, she smiled and told me to go. “You be nice to Kelly, Grim. She’s a nice girl.”

I was out of there in a shot! I was headed out the door just as Dad pulled up and climbed out of his truck. “Hi, Dad! Bye, Dad!” I got in the Sienna and headed over towards East Matucket.

When I got to Kelly’s, I parked and got out. When I knocked on the door, Mrs. O’Connor opened it. “Come on in, Graham.”

“Yes, ma’am. Thank you. Is Kelly ... Oh!” I stopped asking if Kelly was ready, because I saw her standing behind her mother in the living room.

“Hi, Grim,” she said. Now that she was older, she had this amazing husky low voice that just made you want to melt.

“Hi, Kelly. You look really pretty tonight.” That sounded kind of lame, but it was all I could think of to say. She did look pretty, too, with skintight jeans that looked like she had been poured into them, a creamy silk blouse, and black high-heeled sandals. She even had a spritz of some perfume that was doing very strange things to my brain. I felt underdressed. I had worn jeans and a sports shirt, and sneakers. I think I would have felt underdressed in a tuxedo. I was going to have to upgrade my image!

“Where are you kids going tonight?” quizzed Mrs. O’Connor.

“We’re going over to the East Village Mall,” answered Kelly. “We’ll eat there and then go to the movies.”

“Well, have fun and stay safe.”

“Yes, ma’am, we will,” I answered.

I opened the door and Kelly went out, and then I walked her to my mom’s minivan. “I didn’t know you’d dress up. I feel grungy next to you. Should I go home and change?” I asked, apologizing.

Kelly laughed. “Grim, get in the car! You’re fine! We’re only going to the mall!”

I scurried around and got behind the wheel. “You’re just so beautiful that I don’t want you to be embarrassed being with me.”

She reached over and took my hand. “That could never happen. Next time, I’ll just let you know what to wear ahead of time.”

I smiled at that. I might be pussy-whipped, but I wasn’t stupid, either. “Mom says I think better when I have somebody else doing my thinking.”

Kelly laughed. “Oh, I am so going to have to talk to her about you!”

“God help me!”

We ate at a Chinese buffet at the north end of the mall and then walked through the mall holding hands. It was only when we got to the movieplex that we had a problem. Nothing new was out that we hadn’t already seen already. “Next time we need to look at the newspaper and see what’s playing,” I said. “What do you want to do?”

Kelly gave me a coy look and said, “I know a place we can go that we won’t be bothered.”

Suddenly my lips got dry, and my breathing got harsh. I barely squeaked out, “Uh, yeah, sure.”

Kelly laughed. “Oh my God, Grim! We’re not going to do that! Well, not all of that, just some of that. I just want to be alone with you, so we can talk without my parents or yours being around.”

I breathed easier, a touch anyway. “Whatever you want, Kelly.”

“I like that about you, Grim. You’re going to be easy to train,” she giggled.

“Very funny.” I led her back to the parking lot, and we got into the minivan. It was still early enough that I didn’t need the headlights, but it wouldn’t be long before it got dark.

Kelly directed me up to the east side of Lake Matucket, and then through a small maze of back roads. Eventually she had me going down a short dirt road. I had to stop when I came across a chain across the road, along with some NO TRESPASSING signs. I grimaced and was about to say something when Kelly opened her door. “I’ll get the chain.”

“You’ll get the...” I was going to ask her what was up, but she was already out and working on a padlock on the side of the road.

Kelly pulled the chain down and across, and then motioned me forward. After I had pulled up, she hung the chain up behind us. Then she climbed back into the Sienna. “It’s just a little way further.” She pointed down the dirt road.

“What’s a little way further?”

“You’ll see.”

I pulled ahead slowly, and after another couple of hundred yards, the trees surrounding us suddenly opened into a wide glade. Ahead of us was a gentle bank leading down to what I could only assume was Lake Matucket. Off to the right was a small shed. I parked and Kelly climbed out of the minivan. “Come on. I’ll show you around.”

I turned off the ignition and climbed out, pocketing the keys. Kelly was over at the shed, and she was unlocking it. Inside was a riding mower and some yard working tools, along with some picnic type stuff. “Where are we?” I asked.

“I’ll explain in a moment. Quick, grab those blankets while it’s still light enough to see.”

I grabbed an armful of blankets and followed Kelly over towards the water. We spread the blankets out and then kicked off our shoes and sat down. The view was simply spectacular. We were on the east side of the lake and looking due west; we could see the orange glow as the sun set over Mount Matucket and the far bank. Across the lake we could see lights beginning to show in the lakefront homes. The crickets and bullfrogs began to serenade us, as well.

“So, where are we and how long can we stay until the owners have us arrested?” I asked.

“Silly! My parents are the owners. They might throw you in jail, but I’ll be safe.”

“Very funny.”

“Seriously, we own this piece of property, we have for years.” She lay back on the blanket and looked up at the darkening sky. I lay down and rolled towards her, propping myself up on an elbow. “You see, back before we moved, Daddy bought this piece of property off the bank. He said that they had to foreclose on somebody, and the bank got the land. He bought it from the bank because he worked at the bank. We come up here for picnics and to go swimming. He hires a maintenance crew to come up here every few weeks in the summer and mow and whack the weeds. He and Mom always said they would build a house and retire here someday.” She looked sad when she said that. “I guess that won’t be happening now.”

“I’m sorry, babe. I don’t know what to say.”

Kelly twisted her head to look at me. “It’s alright. Maybe they’ll sort things out some day. It’s not like they’re divorced. They talk all the time on the phone, and Dad comes back for a long weekend every two or three weeks. I don’t know as I understand it, not really.”

I didn’t know what to say. “How many places have you lived?”

“A bunch! I was born in Savannah, according to my birth certificate, anyway. I don’t remember it at all. Before we moved to Matucket, we lived in Atlanta for a bit. You know about Charlotte and New York. Mom turned down London, but Dad promised to bring us over for a long vacation this summer.”

“That sounds like fun.”

Kelly nodded. “Yeah, I guess so. It’s funny though. Of all the places we’ve lived, Matucket is what I think of as home. I don’t think I’ll ever want to live someplace else.”

“What about when you go to college?” I asked. “Unless you go to M-Triple-C or Matucket State, you’ll be moving somewhere else.”

“Oh, I know, but I’ll come home afterwards. This is just home to me.”

“Maybe you can buy this from your father. You could build a hell of a house here!”

She laughed at that. “I’ll have to get a really high-paying job! Do you know what lakefront property goes for? Daddy got this place for a steal!” She stretched out sinuously. “Enough talking.” Kelly reached up and pulled my face down to hers.

We didn’t talk for a long while after that. For the first time I was able to wrap both my arms around her. It was fun being able to move without worrying that I was going to smack her or kick her with a cast! We rolled around a bit on the blankets, first with me over her, then side-by-side, and after a bit Kelly was on top of me. She stopped kissing me and laid her head down on my chest and sighed contentedly. My hands roamed slowly along her back. Under her silk blouse I could feel she was wearing a bra, but nothing else. My hands drifted a little lower, to touch her waistband of her jeans, and then grazed across her rear.

Kelly gave a pleasant little moan when I did that. She had to know how I felt, since I had been as stiff as a board for what seemed like hours. I rubbed her butt with a trace more effort, and she moaned again. Then she looked up at me and smiled. “As much as I enjoy that, I think we need to go a bit slower, Grim.”

I tried to look innocent. “Oh?”

“Don’t give me that! You know what I mean.” I reached down and rubbed that perfect rear firmly. She giggled and said, “Yes, that! Behave yourself!”

I brought my hands back up and wrapped them around her back. “Okay, whatever you say.”

That got me another giggle. “You’re very easy to train!” For that I reached down and gave her a spank with both hands, eliciting a squeal. She rolled over and off me, though she stayed in my arms. “Seriously, our first time is not going to be battling mosquitoes by the lake!”

That statement made my eyes pop wide! “There’s going to be a first time?” I asked.

Kelly pulled away and propped herself on an elbow like me. “There’s always a first time, Grim, unless you want to become a priest. I don’t want to become a nun. It would be your first time, too, wouldn’t it?”

Thank God it was now too dark for Kelly to see me blush. “Uh ... uh...” Of course, I was still a virgin, but that didn’t mean I wanted to discuss it!

“I’ve asked a few girls about you, Grim. They told me that you hadn’t done anything with them beyond what we’ve done.”

“Christ! Is there anything you girls don’t talk about?” I protested.

“It’s what we do, Grim,” she said with a laugh. “I even heard from a couple of them that they wished you had been their first.”

I snorted at that. “Tilly and Samantha?”

“No names, Grim. I didn’t think you were the jealous type.”

I sighed. “No, not in my nature, I guess. They made their beds and now they have to sleep in them. That’s a saying that has special meaning, doesn’t it?”

“Well, I know I want my first time to be something other than in the back seat of a Mustang!” she replied. “Anyway, that’s not happening tonight. I’ll let you know when.”

I chuckled at that. “You just do that. I’d hate to miss out because I didn’t know what was happening!”

That got a laugh from her, and then Kelly slapped at something. “Pull that blanket around us. The mosquitoes are getting hungry!”

I pulled the blanket over us and rolled around so that we were wrapped up, and then we got back to making out. I could wait.

I got Kelly home about half past eleven, and then drove home. Mom was waiting up for me in the living room. “Isn’t it a little bit late to have a girl out?” she asked.

“Nothing happened, Mom. We were just talking.”

“Oh? How was the movie? What did you see?”

Great, the third degree! I shrugged and plopped down in an armchair. “Didn’t go to a movie. When we got there, we had either seen it or didn’t want to watch. We took off and drove around a bit and talked.”

“Grim...”

I help up a hand to forestall her. “Mom, it’s like I said, nothing happened. I won’t lie and say we didn’t make out, but that’s it. We mostly just talked.”

She cocked her head to the side. “About what?”

“About everything, I suppose. School. Her family. Her folks. What she plans to do with her life. You know, we talked.”

“And nothing happened?”

I felt a tone of exasperation creep into my voice. “Mom, nothing happened. I’m not saying I would have minded if anything had happened, but Kelly isn’t ready for that, and she told me so. I’m not Candy Pants! I told her I wasn’t going to push.”

“Well...”

“Mom, she said she wasn’t ready, but when she is ready, I won’t say no.” Better to get this out in the open and get Mom to stop prying.

“Hmmmph!” Then it was her turn to shrug. “I can’t stop you from growing up. I know you won’t hurt her, Grim. Just don’t get hurt yourself.”

I had to grin at that. “Like when she leaves Matucket to attend the International Academy for Genius Supermodels? I’m still trying to figure out what she sees in me!” I stood up to head up to my room. “Good night, Mom.”

“Good night, Grim.”

The next day, Saturday, got amusing in ways I hadn’t planned. Kelly had told me she planned to ride her bike over to the house in the afternoon. That was certainly cool by me. What wasn’t so cool was that Dad decided that Jack and I were just the sorts of helpful young men he needed to go over to the Home Depot with him and bring back some mulch and grass seed and fertilizer for the back yard and the flower garden. He made this decision on the basis that we were the only two offspring in the family room when he entered. “You two, go get your shoes on.”

“What’s up, Dad?” asked Jack.

“What’s up is you two getting your shoes on! Time to do some work!”

Jack and I looked at each other. Dad was pretty easy going, but every once in a while, he would get a bug up his ass about us goofing off. We scrambled upstairs and slipped on some old sneakers and ran back down. Then it was out the door to his F-150 SuperCab. Dad had all the whistles and bells on his truck, including the heavy towing package and the big V-8. He had been driving F-150s for as long as I could remember and was now talking about trading up to a newer model with a bigger SuperCrew cab. Off we went to the Home Depot, where Dad did the selecting and paying, and Jack and I did the heavy lifting. Meanwhile I was praying for Dad to finish so I could get home before Kelly showed up. The last thing in the world any guy wants is for his girlfriend and his mother to get together to talk, because you know exactly what they are going to talk about.

YOU!

No such luck. As we pulled into the driveway, I spotted Kelly’s ten-speed leaning against the side of the house. I hurried inside on the pretext of going to the bathroom, to find Mom and Kelly in the living room. Duke was lying on his back on the floor next to where Kelly was sitting and rubbing his belly as he squirmed in delirium. “Hi, guys,” I said.

“Hi, Grim,” said a smiling Kelly.

“Welcome home, Grim. Kelly came over and we’ve been having the most delightful chat about you,” added Mom.

Kelly giggled and I rolled my eyes. “Great! Want to come out and help, Kelly?”

“You want these hands covered in muck and stuff? Forget it!” she protested. “I think I’ll stay in here, where it’s nice and cool, and ask your mom all sorts of things about you instead.”

I was on the verge of protesting when we all heard, “Grim, get your ass back out here now!”

I muttered under my breath and headed back outside as Kelly and Mom laughed at me.

Dad put Jack and me to work in the back yard. Bobbie Joe made the rookie mistake of letting Dad notice he was around, and he got dragooned into helping as well. I couldn’t break free for a couple of hours, and then I had to shower before I was civilized again. I came down the stairs in clean shorts and a t-shirt, and Kelly greeted me with a quick kiss. “You clean up nice. Now, go back up to your room and put on a suit.”

“Huh?”

“You told me to let you know what to wear, remember? You also asked me to the Spring Dance, right? I need to see what you’re going to be wearing.”

“What?” That sounded nuts.

“Sounds right to me, too, Grim. You’re still growing. Let’s see what you have and how it looks,” agreed Mom.

I groaned and headed back up the stairs. The Spring Dance was sort of formal, in that you weren’t just supposed to show up in jeans and t-shirts. Mind you, for some of the hicks out in West Springs and beyond, formal meant clean overalls and barn boots. Then again, if you lived out there you were probably dating somebody you met at a family reunion. I dragged my suit out - I only had one - and pulled the pants on and pulled the jacket on over my t-shirt. I wasn’t surprised that the sleeves came a few inches up my wrist, and my ankles were showing. I came back downstairs. “It doesn’t fit. I could have told you that. It’s why I’ve been wearing my sports coat to church lately.”

“Oh dear!” commented Mom. “Put that aside for your brother. Maybe it will fit him.”

“That’s definitely out,” said Kelly. “Well, go put on the sports coat. Pants that fit you, too.”

Back up to my room I went. I threw my suit coat and pants on Jack’s bed. “Here. Try these on and go downstairs. Mom’s playing fashion queen.”

“Ooooh! I’ll get your cooties!” he said with a laugh.

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Monday, Kelly told me that she was going with me to the lawyer’s office, and the way she said it indicated I had better not argue. I still wasn’t sure what Brockport could do for me that Stillwell couldn’t. Everything I had heard from the guys the other day showed that no matter how I got out of this, the County Attorney and the County Council would still demand they get rid of a killer, and I was still probationary. “Grim, just listen to what he has to say. Daddy says the guy is a magician....

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The Grim ReaperChapter 7 Aggravated Battery

Sunday & Monday, February 18 & 19, 2001 I came to slowly. I was surprised that I didn’t hurt as much as I thought I would, but I couldn’t really move all that well, and things seemed weird. It was warmer than I remembered it being, and brighter, and my sweatshirt and windbreaker were missing. I groaned and tried to move some more. That did hurt, quite a bit, and I tried to find a position it didn’t hurt, and I realized I hurt all over. I blinked my eyes, but only my left eye was...

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The Grim ReaperEpilogue

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 I got out of bed at 0600, but I hadn’t been asleep. I had slept fitfully at best all night, and I just gave in and got up. I went into the bathroom and turned on the shower, so the water would warm up, and then started brushing my teeth. “Can’t sleep?” asked Kelly, from our bed. “I need to get to the station early,” I told her. Any further discussion was ended when we heard a cry from the hallway. Kelly groaned and got out of bed. I smiled and shook my head and...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 67 Fame and Glory

Things got very strange from that point on. It wasn’t like I could just fly off to Washington so the President could slap on the Medal of Honor. Everything had to be coordinated. I was informed of the Medal of Honor on May 24, which was a Monday. My keepers, which is what the two light birds turned out to be, returned on Tuesday, June 1, to let me know the latest. The Army, by that time, had publicly confirmed that I was to receive the Medal of Honor, but that the ceremony was to be held at...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 61 The Goat Whisperer

Friday, September 5, 2008 I had to do a lot of yard work at that resort. Kelly was very insistent that the lawn needed to be mowed as often as possible. I also had to ‘clear the weeds’, ‘trim the shrubs’, ‘edge the lawn’, and perform every other possible type of yard maintenance. On the other hand, I considered it critical to provide the best customer service possible. It’s just the kind of guy I am. Still, we did have to get out of the room on occasion, if simply to gas up the mower....

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The Grim ReaperChapter 22 Leave

I told my family to stay there, and I would get my gear and catch up to them. Kelly offered to follow me, but I had to explain that women were not allowed in the barracks, no way, no how! Luckily there was a parking lot near the barracks that would allow me to load my gear up. Dad had driven down in the F-150, so we could toss my stuff in the back and then ride home. The ride home was mostly taken up with my parents and Kelly asking me about the Army and my training. What did I do, what did...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 50 Rooftop

December 21, 2007 The rest of the year I simply prepped for the academy, worked at the police station, and ‘assisted’ Kelly with wedding planning. Assistance basically consisted of doing whatever I was told I was doing, regardless of my personal opinions. White and rose orchids? Whatever you say, babe, they look wonderful! The fact that I couldn’t tell an orchid from a dandelion meant nothing. White cake, yellow cake, or chocolate cake? They all tasted delicious, but even if they tasted like...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 11 Cruising

That was pretty much it for grand romance for a few weeks. School was ending the following Thursday, and Saturday Kelly and her mom were flying out of Atlanta to London. Neither set of parental units were allowing us to date on school nights, not even during the last week of school. We were able to go out on Friday night, and we got in some quality time then, but that was it. She was going to be gone the last week of May and the first two weeks of June. She got sort of tearful and clingy and...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 33 The Cherokee Bar And Grill

Jim Talbot called me the next afternoon and told me that there was a lively discussion after I left, but that they hadn’t blown me off. I was still being considered by most of the council. He also told me that one of the other candidates had dropped out, citing the council’s inability to get its shit together. That cut it down to me and one other candidate. Sometime next week would be another interview, though that one would be in a smaller setting. What that meant wasn’t specified, but I...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 65 Coffin Metal Handles

Monday, May 24, 2010 I busted my ass that winter getting back into shape. As the doctors had told me, my problems mostly related to muscle and tissue damage, but my joints were in good shape. My biggest problems were in stretching and rebuilding the muscles in my left arm and side. I spent a lot of time in rehab and therapy, and then even more time in the gym rebuilding myself. Kelly and I didn’t have a gym in the house, but it was another one of those benefits of being a cop. The MPD had an...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 64 Recovery

Thursday proved to be about as hectic as I expected it to be. By the time the detectives came to see me, I would be the last guy they would be talking to. By that time, they would have already interviewed everybody except the three dead guys, and they would have been autopsied. The crime scene crew would have been all over the last car they had been in, as well as all over the Quiki-Stop. The security videos from the Quiki-Stop would have been obtained, as well as any from any of the...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 21 Visitors

They were right, of course, I was beat. I stayed awake through dinner and then fell asleep. I woke up Saturday morning stiff and creaky. As the saying goes, it’s just like cars; it’s not the years but the mileage. At thirty-three I had the mileage for one-hundred-thirty-three. Saturday was all about family. My parents arrived right after breakfast, and after Mom violated the rule about not treating a relative by checking my records, they gave me the latest info. Jack was flying in from San...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 6 Tuesday September 26 2017 to Thursday September 28 2017

Kelly and I watched the news Monday night for about an hour, but it was getting repetitious, and we turned it off. By then Kelly was beginning to get some emails and tweets from people she was friends with, mostly asking what was going on. Most seemed confused, but several were rather vile. A few people wanted me to immediately fly to California and butcher my brother on the fifty-yard line, followed by ritually committing suicide. We went to bed, where Kelly tried to take my mind off...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 45 Job Prospects

I called Kelly as soon as I had finished a couple of slices. It was a Thursday, so she promised to come home that night and spend a long weekend with me. I told her I was heading over to the apartment and to find me there. It would be late when she got there, but that didn’t matter much to me. I went back to the kitchen, grabbed another slice of pizza and a beer, and sat down in the family room. Bobbie Joe returned my keys. When I was finished, I kissed Mom on the cheek and headed out. The...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 8 Scholar

Tuesday, January 7, 2019 The rest of the semester was a bitch, a stone-cold cast-iron bitch. I don’t know what I had been expecting, but it was just unrelenting work. Maybe it was because I had taken a lot of time on the two consulting jobs or maybe it was because of the time taken up with Tolley’s book project. More likely it was because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing trying to get a doctorate in history. I mean, I knew there was a lot of reading that was going to be involved....

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 11 Early Retirement

Seamus fell asleep in his car seat before Kelly got home. That made him extra fussy when we got there, and he was handed to me after she got him out of the car. For the next hour we kept putting him to bed and he kept waking up and fussing. Kelly and I talked about my father’s condition. “So, what happens next?” I asked. “This ever happen to your father?” “Not that I’ve ever heard. Maybe he doesn’t exercise as vigorously as your father does.” I had to laugh at that. “There are some things...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 31 Fire Team Leader

June 2005-March 2006 The next morning, we were back to the Army in earnest. Most everybody had filtered back, and we began with PT, physical training, including calisthenics and a four-mile conditioning run. I was hurting as bad as any of the other troops. Leave had left me soft. It didn’t matter, since I knew I would be back in shape in a few weeks, tops. Montoya and Gonzalez, the fuzzies just out of Benning, were in decent shape. Riley was coming off leave and was in about the same...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 47 Job Hunting

Nothing job-related came to my attention by Friday afternoon. I speculated what the perfect job ad would look like - “Wanted! Matucket Firearms Corporation has an immediate opening for product design and testing in their Machine Gun Division! Iraqi war veterans with PTSD desired! Call now, operators are standing by!” I remembered that the AK-47 was invented by a busted-up Russian sergeant during World War II. Too bad there really wasn’t a Matucket Firearms Corporation, either with or without...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 15 Recuperation

Monday, September 26, 2022 Monday was a busy day. I bundled the kids off to school and then called Matucket State. While I didn’t go into details, I had to let her Department Vice-Chair know she was going to be away from work for a week or two. I didn’t know who to call at DARPA or the NSA, but Kelly didn’t talk to them daily anyway; she could handle that chore. Then I drove over to the hospital. By all accounts, I would be able to bring her home that day. First, though, she needed to be...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 15 Background Briefing

Monday, March 19, 2018 “Dispatch to One-Six-Three.” “One-Six-Three to Dispatch, go ahead.” Dispatch to One-Six-Three, say location.” I was curious as to why Dispatch wanted to know where I was, since they had sent me to supervise an accident at Pinetree and Glen Aubrey. There was a three-car pileup on Glen Aubrey after the first car, a silver Nissan sedan had suddenly braked for a squirrel. The next car, a red Ford Fusion had slammed into the Nissan from behind and had then been...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 34 Moving Forward

Hank called me later that evening, laughing about the three chuckleheads, as he called them, and told me that he had told them some more stories. Of course, he kept their glasses full, so it was a profitable conversation for him. He told me that he had told a bunch of war stories about ‘the old days’ and how we did things ‘back then.’ I laughed and invited him and his wife over some night, and to just call me or Kelly to schedule it. Over the weekend Kelly and I goofed off while driving the...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 17 Preparations

Chief Crowley called the meeting to an end. He told Captain Abernathy to light a fire under the detectives and see if anybody had seen any African-American strangers recently. At best we had maybe a day or two before something might happen. Captain Bullfinch and Lieutenant Roscoe were told to give whatever support possible, including moving watch schedules around. Hank was told to assist me and dial up TRT. As far as I was concerned, Priority One was taking care of my family. What was even...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 60 Wedded Bliss

Saturday, June 21, 2008 I continued riding with Hank Jenkins for two weeks, and he signed off on turning me loose on the public on my own. During our time he taught me about the night and graveyard shifts, much like Jerry had taught me about the day shift and general police work. We also brought in a number of bad guys on various warrants, taking criminals off the street and otherwise making Matucket safer for all. It seemed like every shift would start with Hank handing me a stack of...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 21 Bank Robbery

Fall 2023 The summer progressed nicely. I spent a fair bit of time down in Sullivan County and the nearby environs, first analyzing what they had and then developing the options everybody needed to consider. One thing I stressed with them was that by standardizing on similar doctrine, training, and hardware, the SWAT teams created would be suitable for any eventual regional coordination. How the politics would work out was questionable, but it would be easier if the local units had similar...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 30 Fort Drum

April 2005 - May 2005 A few days later I had to leave. I was due back at Fort Drum on Thursday, so Tuesday Kelly and I loaded up the back of the Outback with all my stuff. This time we added all my personal stuff that I had shipped home when I first deployed to Iraq in 2003. Jack was none too amused when I took the television set with me, since he had set it up in the bedroom, but I wasn’t impressed. “You want to keep it? Fine with me. Just buy me a new one,” I told him. “I don’t have the...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 17 Summer

June to August 2002 The following week we had finals, and that was it. Seniors had to go through graduation, but the rest of us were out for a couple of months for the summer. For me that meant I had about a week of goof-off time before I had to go back to the mill full time. That would take me through all of June and into July, at which time it was back to practice for the football season, running twice-a-days and sweating off about ten pounds under the July sun. Somewhere during that...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 17 Miles Madigan

Summer 2023 The job in Sullivan Springs was a larger project than most of those I had already worked on. The spreadsheets were smoking by the time I got through with them. When I contacted Ballantine in two weeks, it was only to tell him I was still working the project. Unlike some of my other jobs, in this one I didn’t have a single answer already packaged. In my other jobs the chief or sheriff already knew what he wanted to do and simply needed an outsider to give him a third-party...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 41 Abu Dhabi

January 2007 Mom was very upset that I wasn’t going to come home on my leave. She just wasn’t buying my explanation about losing my squad. She wanted me to come home, squad or no squad. I think Dad understood, and he told me that his father understood, but Mom was very unhappy. I had been in the Army now for four Christmases, and three had been spent in Iraq. I didn’t even bother telling her about the incident at Yankee North. One of her latest kicks was, “Are you the only soldier in Iraq?...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 2 Reunion

It seemed late when we finished dinner. There was a Welcome Aboard talk in the ship’s theater and after that we did a bit more exploring. There were all sorts of stuff on the boat, including a shopping center with incredibly overpriced stuff, a casino, and a bunch more bars, restaurants, and lounges. We walked around the deck and then went back to our cabin, where we discovered it had been made up, the bed turned down, and an odd animal formed out of some folded towels. Kelly decided she...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 48 Administrative Assistant

I was able to get in to see Captain Crowley on Thursday morning. Another young officer, African-American this time, was the one who escorted me in, and this time Crowley had some paperwork on his desk. I got the impression that after this meeting it would be time to shit or get off the pot. Crowley outlined the procedure to apply, and then reviewed the pay and benefits. “Grim, as an Administrative Assistant you make a bit more than minimum wage, but it’s a full-time job and it qualifies you...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 20 Schools End

Dad didn’t say anything to me the next day, so we must have covered our tracks. At least the back seat in the SuperCrew was wide enough for us to lay semi-flat on. We still drove around in the cold air with the windows down. Monday at school I saw Coach Summers and gave him the news. I was out for a week, and would be reevaluated afterwards, so I might be able to play if we won next week and went to State. “I won’t let you back on the field until you bring me a release from the doctor,” he...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 27 Returning Home

June 2004 - August 2004 Word came down from Battalion that the rest of Second Brigade would be deploying to Iraq soon. It was expected that they would show up sometime in July, but no dates were available. What they would do then was not known, or at least not known to us down at Camp Custer. Where exactly they would be positioned wasn’t known or might change before they got here. However, one interesting tidbit came out. Fourth of the Fourth was going to get some leave. Over the next few...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 8 Sunday October 1 2017

For the last few days President Trump had been on a Twitter rampage, demanding that the NFL players stand during the anthem, demanding the team owners and coaches fire them if they didn’t, and promising dire actions otherwise. Both Jack and I were getting slammed left and right, me for not complaining about the football players’ protests and Jack for not doing more. He was also bitching about Puerto Rico, primary elections, and fake news. No wonder he wasn’t doing his job - he was spending...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 24 Boxie

2024 Sunday, I helped Jack get home. He had chartered a plane to fly from California to Matucket (“ Can you imagine flying commercial through Atlanta with a wheelchair?”) so I simply drove over to their house Sunday morning and helped him out of the house and down to his rental. None of our homes had ramps and I asked whether we should build some for their next visit. “Grim, I’m not sure you should bother. I don’t think I’ll be coming back here any time soon.” “Jack...” “Grim, I just...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 19 Rescue

I never really passed out, but I wasn’t in a mood to keep talking. The immediate threat was contained, and since I was trapped under a tree and wounded, I wasn’t going to wander around the battlefield. After a few minutes I began to hear sirens, both police and fire department; I wouldn’t be alone for long. I twisted my head to the left but couldn’t see to the end of the driveway out on Lakeside Drive. I did see flashing lights approaching, and the sirens went silent. Moments later I heard a...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 66 Old Acquaintances

Grandpa was right about some of what he had said. I googled ‘medal of honor procedure’ later and it turned out there was a huge process involved in giving the Medal of Honor. Once the recommendation worked its way up from Battalion to Brigade and then to Division, it landed at the Pentagon. At least two boards in the Human Resources Command had to approve it, and then it went before the Chief of Staff, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 12 Thanksgiving

Thursday morning was an exercise in controlled chaos. I had time to do a nice breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast, and bacon, which could be a bit of a luxury. I tried to cook a nice family breakfast on weekends but shift work with the MPD meant I frequently missed weekends. At least three of us ate well. Seamus only ate Froot Loops; he was almost three and was still a knucklehead in the Terrible Twos. After breakfast Kelly put Riley and me to work cleaning the house. Seamus, on the other...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 70 60 Minutes

Captain Crowley simply congratulated me on making it through SWAT and then told me that I needed to call CBS in New York. He gave me a phone number and told me to let him know what was going on. For my mind, I was basically done with publicity. The Army had mustered me out a second time, so they couldn’t order me back to New York, and if 60 Minutes wanted to do something on the MPD, they had to come to us in any case. The call went smoothly. Now that I was home from the Academy, CBS felt...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 8 Recuperation

Mom went back to work down in the ER the next morning, which I found a blessing. I mean, I loved my mother, but she was driving me completely nuts hanging around the room with me. She still dropped in at lunchtime, but I could handle that. Otherwise, I had her bring in a few books from home that I could read holding up with my left hand. Kelly came over after school on Tuesday. She had worked out an arrangement to take a different bus over to the hospital, and then either Mom would take her...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 7 Friday September 29 2017 to Saturday September 30 2017

Friday started out like most other days. We got Riley off to school on the bus, and Kelly loaded Seamus in the Sienna to take to day care at Matucket State. The big difference was that we dug out all the luggage. While she was at class, I packed all my formal stuff in a hanging bag, with the rest in a suitcase. As soon as Kelly and Seamus came home, she grabbed her stuff out of the closet and told me to start packing, while she packed everything for the kids. It became a mad rush, since I...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 6 Kelly

Friday, February 16, 2001 School had just started again after the winter break. I was hanging out after lunch with some friends near the south stairwell lockers, with Tilly next to me, when Terry Watson muttered, “Holy shit!” as he looked at something behind me. I turned around and didn’t see anything unusual, at least not at first. What I did see looked like a bunch of girls hugging. Then I saw one of the girls turn around and come over towards us. She was slim, about my height, with...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 19 A Winning Season

Jack managed to finagle a ride home with a couple of cheerleaders who were juniors. I have no idea if he got anything more from them than a lift home, and I didn’t want to know. One of these days my brother’s love life was going to bite him in the ass. Some girl was going to find him with another girl, and there would be hell to pay. Hopefully she wouldn’t be carrying a weapon when that happened. The Sports Section headline Saturday morning was “UNDERDOG PIONEERS CRUSH WARRIORS!” I had no...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 68 Television

I knew what the citation said; whether I believed it was a different question. It didn’t matter much. I stood there, kept my mouth shut, and looked straight ahead. The President put the ribbon around my neck, and everybody saluted and applauded. He gave me a whispered, ‘At ease.’, and I was able to break position and shake his hand in thanks. That was the end of the official ceremony, and it was time for a meet-and-greet. Mister and Mrs. Obama escorted me down off the stage and over to where...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 53 Living the Dream

Police work was vastly different from military life. One of the biggest differences was that the U.S. Army was quite monolithic, in the sense that everybody trained and fought the same way. Every infantryman trained at Fort Benning. Every helicopter crewman trained at Fort Rucker. Every medic trained at Fort Sam Houston. You get the idea. The same could be said at any camp or fort in the country. Everybody did things the same. There’s a reason they called it the ‘big green machine.’ It made...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 63 Out of State Visitors

Saturday, October 24, 2009 My schedule that week was the night shift, Tuesday to Friday, and then I would have off, Saturday to Tuesday. That worked out well, since Saturday was my parents’ anniversary, and both Kelly and I would have the day off. I would be able to sleep late and then we could go over to the house later. Since it was their Silver Anniversary, the plan was for Bobbie Joe, Kelly, and me to take the parental units out to a nice dinner. Jack and Teresa couldn’t be there, of...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 69 Going Home

That was basically the end of the craziness. From Chicago we flew home for a long weekend. Monday, we flew back to New York, and I went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which proved interesting. Stewart was on the liberal side of the spectrum, but he always showed a lot of respect to the soldiers even as he crucified the politicians who got us into Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of the interview was the standard questions, but at the end he asked me something nobody else had asked. Stewart:...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 43 Aftermath

It looked like almost the entire platoon had arrived, led by Lieutenant Southerland. They rolled up to the front gate, actually driving over various body parts as they did so and stopped. The crashed Apache blocked the way in. The first guys to come inside the compound simply stood there and stared at the carnage, though a couple of guys tossed their cookies. Eventually somebody noticed I was standing there and Southerland and another couple of guys ran over to me. “Sergeant Reaper! Sergeant...

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God of LoveChapter 2 Romance

Businessman. Entrepreneur. A rich, multi billion-dollar man. When he was eleven, he had this dream of one day, when he got out of his mother’s shackles, of working to become super rich. Then he could enjoy the rest of his life squandering money while making even more money, even while sitting on the couch watching TV. Thinking of that idea, Lucas’s eyes sparkled. The number of rich men he killed could be counted by having only ten people, each using their hands and feet. He has...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 18 Senior Year

Our first game of the season was at the end of the month, the last Friday of August, the 30th. It was a home game with North Cobb High, from up in Kennesaw. They were from a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, and North Cobb was a big school, certainly bigger than us. That was important in high school football, since the more students you had, the more likely you’ll be able to find better players. I commented on that to Kelly once, and she said something about Gaussian distributions and standard...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 38 Coming Together

Things moved along through the summer. At times it seemed as if for every step we took forward we were taking two steps back. Still, some good things happened. Our new Auto Theft Division made a major arrest mid-June. They grabbed a few cars out of the impound yard and fitted them with GPS trackers and allowed them to be stolen. That generated enough information to get warrants on a pair of ‘chop shops’, garages where stolen cars could be taken and stripped for parts. Lieutenant Dupree of...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 49 Training

October 2007 - December 2007 Mid-October, about when it became obvious that I was going to stick it out and go to the academy, Tim Hungerford showed up at the rickety-bench-with-delusions-of-grandeur that I called my desk. He had a packet of paperwork with him. “Take a break,” he ordered. “You need to look this stuff over.” I looked at him. “Why? What is it?” “It’s the packet from the academy.” “Ah!” I nodded at that. “Let’s take a look. You’ve been through this, right?” Tim nodded....

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The Grim ReaperChapter 52 The Academy

January 2008 - March 2008 When I went back to work, I let Captain Carson know about meeting the Gorsky family, and that I was sure that a lawsuit was on the way. Both he and Lieutenant Brownell quizzed me on what I had told the Gorskys and I swore six ways from Sunday that I hadn’t said anything that could be construed as an admission of guilt. Their general feeling was that we would be named in the suit, but we could dump any responsibility onto the Sheriff’s office, since they ran the jail...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 16 Springtime

March to May, 2002 Mom was not at all amused by my thinking. All through dinner, which Kelly and I nuked in the microwave to warm up, she badgered me about why I was joining the Army. I pretty much gave her the same reasons as I gave my girlfriend. Dad mostly just sat there and listened. He insisted that they had to meet Sergeant Donaldson, and that I was not doing anything until after I got out of school. Eventually I could escape, and I took Kelly out and we went over to the mall, to do...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 4 Skinny Mike

Friday, September 1, 2017 “Gentlemen, I have had it. I hereby resign my position as a member of the human race. There is no possible way I share any genetic material with what I had to put up with today.” So saying, I settled myself onto a barstool in the center of the bar at the Cherokee Grill. Around me my fellow police officers laughed. Mack Waterhouse, the owner of the bar and a former MPD lieutenant, came over and smiled. “Feel free to tell your friendly bartender what your problem is,...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 46 Barbecue

We slept in the next morning, and I informed Kelly that she needed to pass an audition like I had done with her. How was I to know that she wasn’t a demanding wife? What if she was only interested in me for my body, and not my mind? That got me a smart-ass comment from her, “Really? You want to go there? Grim, you need to stick with your body! Your mind ain’t going to cut it!” That earned her a sharp smack on the ass, and I tickled her until she shrieked and begged me to stop. That led to her...

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