Breakfast only bolstered the favorable first impressions Jars had of Nikki. She was smart as well as attractive and their conversation had touched on a wide array of topics. If she didn’t know something she didn’t pretend she did. Nor did she inhabit a narrow world of her own constrained making. The few subjects they […]

Jars had set his alarm to go off at six forty-five. He needn’t have bothered. Although he had fallen asleep more easily than he imagined he might, he found himself waking long before the alarm. If all went well he would be meeting Nikki for breakfast at eight. Rousing had come in stages; from somewhere […]

Jars kept the Land Rover pointed northwest, heading to Cooperstown where he’d spend the night before continuing on in the morning after breakfast. If he was still alive. He’d opted for a leisurely, scenic drive along State Route 28, one that would carry him from Highland to Cooperstown, sending him through the picturesque Catskills where […]