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Submitted to Contest #317
Department: Rockland County Sheriff’s Office, Maine Case #: 25-48812 Date/Time of Report: October 14, 2025 – 02:37 A.M. Reporting Officer: Det. Sgt. Laura Kent (Badge #4711) Incident Type: Disturbance / Possible Homicide / Unclassified Phenomenon Location: 11 Barrow Point Road, Owls Head, MESUMMARY:At approximately 00:41 hours, Rockland County Dispatch received a 911 call originating from landline (unregistered, no subscriber found in databases) at residence 11 Barrow Point Road. Caller provided no verbal information. A recorded line capture...
The first time he spoke to me, my keys were already in the ignition.“Wait,” he said. “Count to three before you turn it.”It was midnight in the parking garage, the kind of place where even your own footsteps sound like someone else’s. He stood one row over, in an old wool coat, watching me like I was the last bus of the night.“One,” he said. “Two. Three.”I turned the key. The engine coughed to life just as a black SUV shot down the lane—wrong way, tires screaming. If I’d been reversing, we would’ve collided at full speed. Instead, the SUV cl...
On a Wednesday in late May, the city of Arroyo put on its good blazer. Banners went up along Riverfront Avenue. A stage was rolled into the sun, and someone ironed the creases out of a ceremonial ribbon so red it looked like a slice of watermelon rind. Coffee carts hissed, cameras arrived in tidy vans, and the mayor rehearsed a joke about civic pride.Lila Duarte stood in the wings of the stage with her phone set to silent and her mouth already shaped around the first line of her speech. She could recite it a third of the way asleep. She had ...
Submitted to Contest #316
he newsroom is never quite silent. After the last intern leaves and the sports guy mutters out, the lights hum and the drink cooler sighs. Beneath it all comes the sound Nadine never names—the soft, workmanlike chattering of a typewriter nobody owns.She lets it run. She doesn’t look toward the corner it favors or hunt behind cabinets. She keeps the obituary file open, fingers hovering, and waits out the tapping. Eventually it slows, like rain reconsidering.At 10:12 on a November Thursday, the typing starts again. Nadine closes her eyes. Name...
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