#17: Olivia: Watched from her balcony
Olivia stood on the balcony of their ‘loft’ apartment watching for her boyfriend to return. He’d gone to the corner market to buy some beer.
She idly surveyed the surrounding area while she waited. At times she couldn’t believe their luck. She might as well have won the lottery. In fact she had ‘invested’ in some crypto-coins a few years ago on a lark. She had then totally forgot about them. The coins sat on her hard drive for all that time...and increased in value ....exponentially.
She suddenly found that she was a crypto-coin millionaire.
She had been a nurse at the time of this happy discovery. She worked in the maternity ward. She liked what she did..but she was tired of being a bridesmaid and wanted to be a bride, as it were. She and her boyfriend had been holding off until the day arrived that they could afford a child.
That day had come.
She quit her job.
She and her boyfriend had selected a ‘loft condo’ near the river. It was an odd place. Many of the buildings nearby had been demolished. She had heard that the neighborhood had been ‘condemned ‘ (eminent domain) so that, of all things, an Ostrich Racetrack could be built.
That didn’t work out.
In frantic desperation, in order to maintain SOME sort of taxbase, the city had sold the property to a condominium developer...a rather strange one.
He boy friend was, of all things, a writer. He wrote books. He was inspired by the Clive Cussler character Dirk Pitt. It was therefore natural that when he saw a warehouse with a penthouse apartment on top he had to have it.
Thus...Olivia was standing on the balcony, on top of a ware house looking down the street expecting to see her boy friend walking back from the corner store.
She saw him...and watched him die.
The Next Episode will be
#18: Olivia:He Was Hit by a Bus…
The Previous Episode was
#16:Banana Slug: LotsaWatah…
The First Episode was
# 1 : Prologue…
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Book One: SoulStone
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it's hard to tell what’s true or when they are lying isn’t it? It seems that they are more interested in influencing public opinion than they are reporting the facts.
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I am curious how you can do so much work for less than a day. We (Game of thrones fans) are waiting for G. R.R. Martin to write the next part for years... Maybe you should consider helping him with it. You write with passion!
heh...thanks so much.
protagonists always seem to have the most incredible loft spaces.
dirk pitt
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HOPE OTHERS LEARN FROM THIS AS MUCH AS I HAVE
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what about all well going coins that are in soo dip at this time and really like this situation as say in here....
any advise @everittdmickey dear
Interesting! Thank you for sharing
It was a sudden death and that ended the good luck of Olivia and She watched it from the balcony... It would be any event related to the waters of the river or the insecurity of a somewhat lonely and doomed area? ... It's necessary to make sound decisions that allow you to be safe away from the risk areas.
and try not to drown much.
Yea! I agree