Andrew Dabbs
Bio
Served in the Marines 2001-2011, aspiring writer, other than that a normal person.
Stories (3/0)
Company Man
On Monday, 0545, Michael Porter received simultaneous alarms from the screen/console in his room and his commcard lying on his bedside table. He tapped the commcard screen then flung the blanket off and padded over to the console. The screen flashed PRIORITY: OCCUPATIONAL again and again. His index finger alternated between staccato taps and graceful swoops on the computer screen. A female head, with copper skin and black hair, delivered the message in an androgyne voice:
By Andrew Dabbs3 years ago in Futurism
Signs of the Times
During my sophomore year of high school, in 1993, I discovered the book Zodiac by Robert Graysmith in our small public library. It was the original 1986 hardcover, encased in a library-issue clear jacket and appropriately carded. I flipped through the book and was immediately arrested by the drawings and by Graysmith’s detailed appendices at the back. These appendices, grouping every conceivable detail about this singular and unsolved case, were so extensive it was a day before I flipped back to the frontispiece and began reading the book proper. Within a week, I had reached armchair expert status on the case. I passed the book to a friend of mine and upon reading it, he put forward the idea that we should review the material and solve the case ourselves. This effort exhausted itself within a week, but years later, when I returned to revisit the case, I realized that our failed effort to solve the case and identify Zodiac (I eschew the definite article) was not out of the ordinary. Untold thousands, through the years and with the advent of the internet, had made the same attempt. What is it about this case that creates this shared impulse, across the country and over fifty years, to solve this mystery? Why did the killer do what he did? Why did this happen? I will answer these questions. For those unfamiliar with case, here are the basics.
By Andrew Dabbs3 years ago in Criminal
White Elephant
The Greenleaf family was an extended clan of alcoholics, producers of methamphetamines, riders of expensive motorcycles - respected for their reputations as both hard workers and brawlers. Meg’s uncle, after years of abuse, had killed his father during a fight in the kitchen. This killing, like the conflict in a band of mountain apes, propelled the young man to the positon of Greenleaf patriarch at the age of nineteen. His leadership was contested by a cousin, who was in turn blinded for life by a load of birdshot, collapsing in the front yard of the ramshackle house.
By Andrew Dabbs3 years ago in Families