In one word: Damn. From the moment I left The Valley my anxiety raised a hundred fold. Not wanting to go directly home I ordered Jarvis my chauffeur to drop me off on the corner of Huron and Michigan Avenue. "Pick me up in an hour at our tower on Cross," I rambled exiting the limousine as it came to and stop at the traffic light.
"As you wish, Master Fence," Jarvis replied in his usual no nonsense demeanor.
I hurried to the sidewalk and watched as the limo continued on. Seemingly synchronized, the constant flow of traffic and a preoccupied pedestrian begged for my attention. Cars and trucks resembled space vehicles as I meet the momentary stare of a man who was seconds before distracted with what I could only assume was a cell phone. In my direction he half-heartedly smiled. I nodded. From his phone I could hear someone demanding he pay attention. As he passed, on his device I could see a video image of the person he had been speaking too. Wow. I gotta have one, I thought to myself, mentally noting to place a cellular phone at the top of my list of priorities.
Dalat restaurant read the large white lettering painted on an adjacent window. Prior to my hospitalization, unlike Family Eye Vision and Haab's across the street, I had no recollection of a restaurant being there. The land on which Dalat sat my father had purchased not long before he died. Why anyone would want to place an eatery in the location I couldn't imagine. Had my father been alive I'm sure he wouldn’t have approved.
Eager to see how much more Ypsilanti had changed, rather than wander down the hill west on Michigan Avenue I chose to travel northeast to Theo's. My time being limited and lunch at Theo's having been a favorite of my father's, I figured it to be as good of a place as any to grab a bite to eat before heading home.
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The Widower Murders
Mystery / ThrillerTwo decades ago, a total of five widowers were killed by a female serial killer named Ella Timmins. Believed to have been the fifth, local philanthropist and businessman, Adrian Price, was discovered bludgeon and mutilated in his mansion, Price Esta...
