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    As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:

    --His clothing was expensive and stylish;
    --He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
    --His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
    --He looked angry;
    --He was wearing sunglasses.

    What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?

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    19 Oct 2025

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    It was Julian of all people who first worked it out.

    “Do you know,” he said. “I think this baby can see me.”

    “Don’t be stupid,” Alison said, but even she had to admit that Iris did seem to be following him with her eyes.

    “You always get nutters saying their babies or their dogs see ghosts!” Julian said. “Maybe they’re not nutters after all.”

     

    Sometimes a family is two parents, their baby and the ten ghosts that haunt their house. Scenes from one such family.

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    01 Dec 2024

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    Kim is standing beneath the #1 Whirling-in-Rags. He doesn't know that the room upstairs is in a total state of disrepair. He doesn't know that the man upstairs is Harrier Du Bois, infamy manifested in the flesh. And he doesn't know that Harrier Du Bois' efforts to bludgeon himself into oblivion over the past two days just met its catastrophic failure.

    What he does know is this: The window upstairs is broken. He's here to investigate a lynching. And he's angry that he couldn't get here sooner.

    Or:

    In which Harry Du Bois didn't lose his memory in Martinaise and has to deal with the consequences of his actions.

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    25 Aug 2024

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    Pryce laughs robustly. “So we’ve got some sort of a love…polygon, a union vote in five days, fourteen shots fired by Vic’s count, three stiffs, one destroyed firearms locker that we’ll probably have to reimburse Delta Logistics for, a random betting slip, some necklace that cost a king’s ransom, and a whole safe full of naughty notes.”

    “…Yes.” Kim confirms, trying to hide a smile. “An apt summary, really.”

    “You know, I became a junior officer at nineteen–” The captain flourishes his hand toward Gottlieb, “–Ah, Nix could tell you about those days. I’ve been a cop almost forty years, and this? This takes a whole bakery full of cakes, boys. What next, an escaped lion from the god damn zoo?”

    Pryce’s shrug is exaggerated; the lieutenant is mildly amused.

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    Everyone has their thing that they do to keep the darkness at bay. Some people have houseplants, some people fall into marriages that they shouldn't, and some people ingest every substance they can get their hands on. Jean wears women's clothing, sometimes, and that is no one's business besides his own.

    So when Lieutenant Kitsuragi does a wellness check on him because he hasn't shown up to work in a while and has a well-known history of playing chicken with a loaded gun, he is surprised at what he finds.

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    16 Aug 2024