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Through the Fog (Chapter 4)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. Maybe it was curiosity, maybe it was fear, but I decided to ride along with Dope and Pally to Ireland. I’d never been, that I could remember. Er,...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 5)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. The faint aroma of toast and cheese drifted by as my hosts herded me up the ramp from plane to airport. Perhaps they sensed my change of heart, or at...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 6)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. I didn’t realize Ireland was such a big country. I mean, it’s not, but we’d been driving for five hours and just kept going. What I considered...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 7)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. With a bridge, yes, but an island. I didn’t want to go to an island; not in the present company, at least. It was all beginning to feel slightly...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 8)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. “My apologies, Dr. Martin. Please, come in, sit down. I know it’s a warm evening, but I hope you’ll forgive me a small fire; I get cold so easily....
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Through the Fog (Chapter 9)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. The sunlight coming through the window was warm on my face. A breeze, cool, but not cold; distant sounds of farming: a sheep bleating, a tractor, a...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 10)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. Winding dirt lane, winding paved road, bridge, more winding; it should have been a peaceful drive through what I now remembered was one of the most...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 11)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. Math, after that much to drink, was tough. Driving was impossible, but I did it anyway; sitting and waiting for the cousins seemed like a bad idea....
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Through the Fog (Chapter 12)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. Tigh Coili had music every night, not just weekends, which is why it was my favorite pub in Galway, even off-season. Must have had one too many...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 13)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. I stopped short: I hadn’t noticed the crowds of people on the shore while I was battling the wind. They’d hardly noticed me as well, having to face...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 14)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. It was a mile or more to the road proper, and a mile up that through a residential area to anything that looked like a town. Killarney was big, but...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 15)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. Somewhere along the line I’d decided to trust her. I wasn’t totally sold on the reporter angle; maybe I’d watched too much American television, but...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 16)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. I didn’t completely mistrust her, but I was having an even harder time accepting that she just happened to be coming out of the garda station as I...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 17)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. The last half-dozen miles from Oranmore to the center of Galway City went either much too slowly or much too fast. The traffic was thick, the closer...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 18)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. The mixture of sea air, restaurants and old wood felt familiar as we walked up Mainguard Street past the traffic pilings. I wonder how many cities...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 19)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. “Dr. Martin, I’ll begin by clarifying something: Michael O’Quinn’s methods were sloppy and ineffective, as was his thinking. So it goes. My thinking...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 20)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. The 25 miles around Galway Bay to Kinvarra would have been about 10 if we’d had a boat. Might still have taken the same hour, though; maybe more. I...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 21)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. There was nowhere to go but uphill. I would have rather found a nice deep gully to slip into, but since the car was a dead giveaway I’m not sure it...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 22)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. It wasn’t really difficult going, but it was getting dark. A flashlight would have been nice, but I probably wouldn’t have used it anyway, what with...
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Through the Fog (Chapter 23)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1. My stomach lurched and my head swam. I wanted to run screaming from her; I wanted to hit her; I wanted to beg her to tell me it was all a mistake,...
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