Melanie McCree

Urban Sword & Sorcery

Happy Jack’s Tomato Ranch, Interlude

April 16: This part isn’t funny. We next heard from Detective Wayne Phillips of the Child Justice Center. I am not going to spend much time on this session, because it concerned child abuse. But I want to share some facts: These cases require a very thorough...

Happy Jack’s Tomato Ranch, Part Three

April 16: Beth and Melanie have begun to suspect that Chief Duncan Hoss is of their tribe   Chief Hoss opts to use a snapshot of a rookie cop’s day to explain the role of the third branch of the Civil Division, Criminal Records. To do this, he selects a man...

Happy Jack’s Tomato Ranch, Part Two

April 16: Beth and Melanie are profoundly grateful to hear any voice other than Tangentia’s Chief Duncan Hoss is solid. Solid head, solid shoulders, solid temperament, solid sense of right and wrong, solid in a crisis. If Duncan Hoss views something as a...

Happy Jack’s Tomato Ranch, Part One

April 16: Beth and Melanie return to the Sheriff’s Office and sit in the back row, to no avail On the way to this week’s class, I explained my masterful plan to Beth: “Last week, the people in the back row just wouldn’t stop talking. They were...

What Does The Fox Say / Yoga (Part 3)

 April 9. Beth and Melanie are still at the Sheriff’s Office. They’ve been acting like adults for over three hours, even after the “What Does The Fox Say?” story. We had a short break, and then our next speaker, whose name and title I did not...

What Does The Fox Say? / Yoga (Part 2)

April 9: Beth and Melanie, still in the Sheriff’s Office classroom, meet two more members of the force. Sheriff Horch is a conqueror masquerading as a good ol’ boy. Rangy and bright-eyed and spring-loaded. He introduced himself as “a politician, not...