Juliette Rose Considers Her Options

“I can’t go in front of a judge and ask for an injunction on the basis of something Robert heard in the woods,” Roger was saying to an exasperated Juliette Rose. “We have to have something concrete, some kind of proof.”
“Like what?” DJ asked before Juliette could explode.
“Almost anything that would support what Robert says.  [...]

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The Dancing Vampire Questions Her Oomph

Mave was profoundly confused, her emotions in upheaval, her mind in a whirl.  For a while she considered the possibility that she was actually sick with some kind of stomach flu because it seemed so tight and empty and she couldn’t eat.  Then she thought it might be a mild heart attack because it was [...]

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The Dancing Vampire Falls in Love

If you have noticed an uncharacteristic absence of Mave pushing to be the center of attention since Robert’s dramatic entrance, there’s a reason for that, and the potential siting of a chemical plant on Amos’ farm has nothing to do with it.
How can I put this?
What Robert experienced when DJ came out of Roger’s bedroom [...]

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The Fecal Matter Assaults the Air Circulation Device

Once they got inside, Mave flattered Roger beyond the bounds of wishful thinking, passing into the realm of absurdity at the twenty minute mark.  For the most part DJ was amused but every once in a while her forehead crinkled and she frowned slightly in a way that Roger might have found sobering had he [...]

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The Dancing Vampire in Roger’s Cabin

Mave followed Roger and DJ home after the meeting finally broke up an hour later without any sort of resolution that would deserve the name. Her reactions to driving on her first-ever dirt road are lost to history but her dismay upon sighting the cabin was too pronounced to miss.
“You live here?”
“Exactly right. [...]

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Mave Meets the Gang

Mave was all smiles when she reached the table, on her best behavior and with her soft Southern accent flying on all six cylinders. (I will not attempt to reproduce it. Use your imagination. That’s what it’s for.)  “Roger, darling,” she said in a voice that would have melted uranium.  “Here you are.”
“Yes, here I [...]

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Mave in the Bald Beagle

As for poor Mave, she had been planning to move in with Roger.  That would have been, under the new circumstances, somewhat awkward what with this slut…uh, “other woman”…ensconced there like mushrooms in the basement.  Roger was much more malleable alone than when he had back-up.
Although she didn’t like leaving him up there with her [...]

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Roger and Mave the Dancing Vampire

The Law Offices of Roger Ellis were a nondescript suite of two rooms in a nondescript building in Tully, about as nondescript a town as you’d be likely to find outside Kansas.  The outside room was known as the “Waiting Room”, though no one ever seemed to be waiting there no matter what time of [...]

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