A Controlled Burn
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Albuquerque makes a disgustingly beautiful first impression: the sky as big and curved and blue as he’s always heard it can be, streaked with paintbrush clouds. Distant mountains rise from the impossibly flat land like slumbering lizards, their skin mottled and cracked beneath the blistering desert sun.
Jimmy never thought the straight and narrow could be so vast.
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- Part 1 of A Controlled Burn
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Sunlight pours through the office window, catching the dust in the air and tracing the edges of the woman before him. She waits contemplatively, elbows propped on the dark wood. Her nameplate says V. Simpson, Academic Coach, but when they’d shaken hands earlier, she had asked him to call her Vera.
“So it’s impossible?” Jimmy says, finally.
The sequel to A Controlled Burn.
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- Part 2 of A Controlled Burn
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Jimmy settles in a booth and thuds his textbook down on the table. He scowls at the cover.
Comparative Constitutional Law scowls back at him with serifed eyes.
“Yeah, shut up,” Jimmy mutters, and he flips the book open to a chapter about halfway through, where a wedge of yellow paper marks his place. He rubs the bridge of his nose, then reaches for his pen.
The third story in the A Controlled Burn series.
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- Part 3 of A Controlled Burn
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The amber tequila floats through Jimmy. He nods slowly, pretending to listen, letting the current carry him further and further, and Kim is nodding beside him—
And he’s watching her again, he’s just been watching her.Missing and not-so-missing scenes from 1x10 and 2x01.
Works as a standalone and as an epilogue to my A Controlled Burn series.
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- Part 4 of A Controlled Burn