by storyofdetectives | Jul 6, 2025 | Personal/painful
Chapter 1: The Call from BlackharborThe coastal wind battered the side of the SCU van as it wound its way along the C2 highway, the sky above Verrowind bruised purple and gray. At the wheel, Yara Novik kept her jaw set, knuckles white where she gripped the steering...
by storyofdetectives | Jun 10, 2025 | Personal/painful
Chapter One: Smoke on Broderick LaneGreyhaven’s morning always carried a heaviness, but today it was literal—white-grey plumes curled above the city’s Financial District, smudging out the thin sun as Mira Lorne’s car crept past barricades. The Serious Crimes Unit’s...
by storyofdetectives | May 3, 2025 | Personal/painful
Chapter 1: Stillness in WitchpineThe first rays of sunlight filtered through the ancient pines, catching wisps of fog that hung low over the Witchpine industrial zone. The old bottling plant, its corrugated walls patchy with rust, squatted at the edge of the hot...
by storyofdetectives | Apr 25, 2025 | Personal/painful
Chapter 1: Nightfall in the DocklandsRain shimmered beneath sodium lights as Mira Lorne pulled her dark coat tighter and stepped onto the glistening cobblestones of the Docklands. The air stank of diesel, old beer, and loss. Greyhaven’s old port area was always worse...
by storyofdetectives | Apr 23, 2025 | Personal/painful
Chapter 1: A Disturbance in WitchpineThe town of Witchpine lay shrouded beneath a dense canopy of pines, their needles whispering secrets to the wind. It was an early October morning when an anonymous call brought the Verrowind Serious Crimes Unit to this remote...
