(Click on the Image for a Clear View.) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul Part-2 Introduction (Narrated by Kaylin) It's not exactly Influenza, but the spread of influence is treated like a disease in this country.  One minute you think you're free, and the next you're being informed that your influence and your safety has become a concern to people in high places.  It's not a matter of size, but a matter of data.       It's not all things, but then again it is.  It's not all censorship, but it's all surveillance.  We're not moving in circles exactly, but it's the moving around monuments that makes the circles.  It's an organized world, and the only freedoms are a baiting system.  If people feel threatened, they lie.  If they believe they're being watched, they hide.  But if they feel like an independent piece of tumbleweed, they just keep rolling.  It's information not conversations.  It's shifting monuments, not simply i...

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  (Click on the Image to Open a Clear View) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 18 Jeff - I was raised by my grandmother.  My father's mother that is.  I've never met my mother or any of her family members.  She just wasn't there.  She hadn't been a distant awareness or a part of the factory settings.  Any fall back I could resort to was my grandmother Dorsey Dunbar, but she was gone now.  I'd only seen pictures of her and her husband.  He also wasn't there.  She had a tradition however of using the "D" in Dunbar to create the household and community names we often went by.  In the neighborhood, she was known solely as Ms. Dordy.  That's "Dor" for Dorsey and "d" for Dunbar.  I was about nine years old when I'd put it all together.  It was the mail carrier that brought truth and light with him.  I was Jed.  And my father; he was Tod.  His name is Timothy Dunbar.  He was killed in a robbery when I was young....

(Click on the Image to Open a Clear View) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 16 Radiance - The first time I heard his voice, I was rattled.  Internally, I mean.  I was frozen inside with fear.  So, I stayed quiet.  I was moving and speaking and doing all the things I was suppose to on the outside, but I remained split logistically.  I remained in my head, but I was able to multi-task it all.  I could hear my questions, "what was that?" and "what's happening to me?" replay while I conversed, and my body made all the same rotary decisions as usual.  It was a definite interruption, but I showed no disruption.  I didn't pardon myself or withdraw from my dealings, nor did I mention it.  It was a gentle and subtle voice, not completely solid in sound, but it could be recognized.  Eventually, it became a presence and subtle character impulses that I recognized.  Whenever I could feel his presence in public, I would naturally become suspicious a...

(Click on the Image to Open a Clear View.) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 15 Monica Shepherd - I thought about Radiance's song practically all night.  I didn't know why I was following her career so closely, but I had all of her releases and played them often.  They didn't disturb my senses, and I found that I could even play her while I was painted.  It's the thoughtfulness in her lyrics, and the way she lends herself to the role of being the main character.  She simply has a real draw about her.   I was also thinking about the questions about the Dunbar name that came up, and the dark areas.  I constantly wondered if he would return again with more questions.  Although they seldom did, unless they were tied to something really important.  I'd never met Radiance, but after hearing her newest song, I thought perhaps I would see one of her concerts.  Afterall she was a true artist like me. I went a step further in my questioning, and plann...

  (Click on the Image to Open a Clear View) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 13 Radiance - She's the only person I know that can throw a raft like she does.  Kayla is reasonable.  That's what I make of what she did for Kaylin, but Natalie is unreasonable.  The way she sees recompense is far elite.  She's also my sister, so I must say that God had it all worked out.  We've never had a fight, and she's never needed to bill me.   I remember the first time I read the settlement between Ample Records and Kaylin.  I knew right away that Natalie needed to have a look.  It just felt like I was quietly being rolled over or squeezed; the way they elected me to solve Eaton's crime.  I wanted to make it clear that I expected blood to prove thicker than water, and that Reece couldn't just rest on my loyalties.  I mean it was the cleanest clean up I'd ever seen.  That was Kayla's lane, and I wasn't a dirty player but I had come through mud...

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