(Click the Image for a Clear View.) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 37 Jeff - I'd never guessed when I first started wondering about my heritage that it would lead to two parts Dunbar.  When we'd gotten back to L.A. Ketly and I had taken everything we knew to a local historical society archives library.  We'd waited nearly a week to sit with someone, and it was everything in one sitting.  It was an oral record logged there by my grandmother Dorsey herself.  She'd made it just weeks after my father was killed.  It included her knowledge of her father's meaning by naming her Dorsey Dunbar and paper records of her marriage to Timothy Earl Dunbar, a railworker.  There was even news clippings about my father's death and my grandmother Dorsey's endorsement of his full-breed status.  It was a sort of oxymoron.  A Black full-breed Dunbar.  It made me wonder if my grandmother Dorsey had been in love with Timothy Earl Dunbar, or whether it had bee...

(Click on the Image for a Clear View.) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 36 Reece-   There were no more dreams.  I had only wished for another indication of Eaton's wellbeing, but all there was was Radiance's grief.  I didn't care about before, there was just no way that I was taking her word that he was gone.  I just couldn't.  So I waited diligently on the law; both to find Eaton and to arrest Unger. In the meantime, I was sure to protect Ample Records and Ample Sound from Cassandra's big eyes, and endless wandering.  I didn't dare test her family bond or her know how.  Instead I continued to steer the boat away from my side of Ample and suggested that she anchor with the parent.  It was what I saw as the real family connection and the proper way to make her feel right at home.  Although I knew that she could easily suggest that I hadn't paid at all for all the risk and resources it had taken to locate Eaton, I wasn't opposed to leaving such a ...

  (Click the Image for a Clear View.) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 35 Kaylin - I wasn't sure how it had happened, but I received a letter from Ample Sound releasing me from our diplomacy.  It was a friendly agreement that said Ample Records would continue to use my songwriting skills as long as there was no concerted effort by K-Ezra to compete with Ample Sound.  It was good for me, and I had easily signed on.  It didn't make me a business ally, but a sort of friend.  Now it wasn't clear what I would become. I took the letter and laid it down in a pile of other things that meant I needed to run faster.  They were indications that something in the eco system of my business had changed.  These things didn't call for rest or rejuvenation, but locomotive. My phone call to Radiance however, did required some fallback.  I'd heard about Eaton over two days ago.  It was all over the news that he was last seen in Russia where he was being held illega...

(Click on the Image for a Clear View.) #ABPOS The Thinner Soul, Chp. 33 Reece - I didn't want to hate her or the green she was able to be. I knew it wasn't her fault for not knowing about Eaton.  She was only living up to her reputation, and whatever role she'd agreed to play in the game her and Radiance always seemed to be engaged in.  When I saw her review and the timing, I knew we were busted.  It was deep, and there was a bit of showboating, but it played well with her innocence. Her description of the stark white dress Radiance had worn on stage in Russia labeled as only her second favorite wedding dress behind a dress she'd seen once in a day's dream that she promised to tell the audience all about in due time, was her signature style briefing.  It was what her readers lived for.  Her knowledge for things that couldn't easily be imagined.  Like how the gown she'd seen was even more spectacular than her own dress, which she described as a steal away de...