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Chapter 37 A boasting cold breeze swept into Palisade from the Rocky Mountains to the east mocking any expectation of a warm morning despite the overhead sunny skies and high thin clouds.. A sure sign to those lives long rooted here that an early winter storm may well be in the making. With an eight man SWAT platoon on the ground, and a circling helicopter armed with two sharp shooters positioned in the open cargo bays, the area encompassing the oak tree grove was secured by 8 am. Cyrus Denason... Read More

Chapter 36 Mercury-vapor arc lamps flooded the rolling fields and pastures of the Burnstone property as if some favoring god had provided this tiny portion of the world it's own independent solar system shedding waves of light into the nighttime darkness that cloaked the rest of the township. Fixed on stand-a-lone tripods, or mobilized by the use of roving helicopters, flood lights leached away all natural color giving the pushed back pre-dawn gloom characteristics liken to a movie shot with bl... Read More

Chapter 35 Palisade Colorado is the kind of place where nature holds spellbound the living to steadfast rhythms and tempos dictated by the constant progression of earthly seasons. Like warm hands from a campfire, the northern hemisphere had begun it's annual pilgrimage favoring outer space, causing sunlight to skip like a flat stone over the open expanse of vineyards and orchards mimicking a glassy pond. This time of year was usual to a mark. With the busy fruit harvests behind them, both the... Read More

Chapter 34 After breakfast they walked for a time getting to know their surroundings, but within a half hour Michelle requested they return to the motel as she was still somewhat fatigued after the previous day's ordeal..The effects of coffee had taken it's toll on Nick, and he found he couldn't drop off. He sufficed, lulled into a calm trance while listening to Michelle's gentle breathing as she lay curled against him..He stayed that way for maybe an hour until feeling her sleep deepen, quietl... Read More

Chapter 32 Sitting bar side at a stripper joint in west Pasadena, Cyrus Denason took in the late breaking news over a 35 inch plasma screen mounted just below some nicotine sullied acoustic ceiling panels. Previously recorded camera shots taken from a Salt Lake City news helicopter pointed to the quarter mile section of I-70 freeway that had fallen victim to a deep opening in the earth's surface .. "Shit happens", he mumbled before downing another shot glass of Southern Comfort whiskey.. He'd s... Read More

Chapter 31 At their current location just east of the fog like curtain, Michelle successfully flagged a west bound trucker who after hearing her story, radioed the Utah State Police warning of a woman reporting fatal collisions due to a dangerous obstruction in the roadway some five miles east of Sulphurdale..Neither Nick's nor Michelle's phone provided so much as a dial tone when they attempted to call 911, both of them coming to the conclusion some form of electromagnetic disruption within th... Read More

Chapter 30 Nick and Michelle got an early start Monday morning hoping to put three hundred miles behind them with a targeted destination of Salina off the I-70, the last stop before crossing two hundred miles of high mountainous wilderness ending at the town of Green River in eastern Utah. They stopped for fuel and a lunch break in Cedar City a town some fifty miles south of the I-70 split named for the evergreen trees that grow there..Trees which are in fact drought tolerant junipers not cedar... Read More

Chapter 29 Sunday morning, October 5th: Through out the southern region of Utah the legend of Agka-Ku-Wass-a-Wits (red painted faces) has been handed down from generation to generation even before the mythology of the people known as Paiute had arrived over a thousand years ago. Once entwined within the stories of their culture it told and re-told something like this: Before there were any human kind inhabiting these lands, the Legend People lived here in this place..Because they were bad, Coyo... Read More

Chapter 28 What began as a simple handshake escalated into hugs, pats on the back, and long goodbyes for the couple departing the cabin..Soon the town of Blythe was behind them replaced by intermittent views of the Colorado River on their right and dry bed arroyos that ran horizontal to the 95 highway in a series of swells causing roller coaster effects in the pits of the travelers stomachs. In the little town of Needles they fueled the bikes then merged with Arizona by way of interstate 40 eas... Read More

Chapter 27 Hal rose early Saturday morning and using Samantha's kitchen cooked a huge breakfast for Quentin and himself included pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon..To the boy's amusement he flipped golden brown flapjacks high in the air catching them on a pizza pan as they fell. They'd made a pact last night allowing Mom to sleep in this morning..The two of them were going fire hydrant painting and Hal wanted to be on the road by 7:30 AM. Today's meeting at the FBI Headquarters was scheduled... Read More

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