Jed, his dog Jaz, and my kittens
In the lost prequel to Public Secrets, Billy, based on
my real-life creepy stalker fan, enters the house of a young female DJ and
waits for her to come home. Only another woman arrives and in the dark Billy
kills the wrong woman and then himself. The dead woman turned out to be the
station engineer’s wife.
Here’s the real background to the story. I did have a
phone stalker who threatened to kill me when I was a DJ, and I did have a crush
on my station engineer, but nothing happened because he was married.
Still, I really liked Jed. Here’s an example why: One
day, on my hour drive to work, I discovered my momma cat had moved her kittens
to my car. Fortunately, they let me know they were beneath the front seat
before I reached the radio station. (It was hot enough they would have died if
left in the car.) So, when I got to the station, I put them in a cardboard box
and left them in the snack room while I went on air. (The kittens were hungry
and crying, so no way could they stay with me.)
Once I got everything set up for my show, and put on a
long record to start off my three-hour show, I hurried back to the snack room
to see if I could find milk in the fridge for my starving kittens.
To my surprise, Jed is feeding my kittens milk from a
saucer on the table. There were a couple of the kittens that wanted to explore
rather than eat. Jaz, Jed’s fabulous shepherd, kept nudging them away from the
table’s edge to prevent them from falling off the table.
Jed had a weird sense of humor. “I tried to feed them
to Jaz, but the damn dog won’t eat them…too scrawny.”
I kissed his dog, Jaz, on the top of its head and ran
back to work before my song ended. I really liked Jed. I thought his dry and
often inappropriate sense of humor was funny. By the time my show ended three
hours later, the kittens were back in my box, which was now lined with
someone’s sweater. All the kittens were sound asleep with Jaz sleeping beside
the box.
I interrogated Jed about where he got the sweater. He
just shrugged his shoulders. When I pestered him further, he admitted it had
been in the closet for several years. Then he said Jaz had eaten one or two of
the kittens, no doubt to distract me from the sweater. Since I had already had
done a headcount and knew they were all there, I just petted Jaz.
I have no idea what happened to the first story I
wrote where Jed and I give into our feelings. (Something that never happened in
reality) All that’s left of the first story is a paragraph in Public Secrets
where my heroine shares a bit about her past with the FBI agent.
An
Excerpt from Public Secrets
Luke
sighed. “How old were you?”
“Nineteen.”
“Were
you having an affair?” Luke asked. He knew the answer, for he was very familiar
with her background. But he was curious how honest she planned to be.
She
shook her head. “It’s ironic. Angie had been accusing Jed of sleeping with me
for months. Her accusations had practically driven him into my arms. The reason
I didn’t go home that night, the reason Billy killed her instead of me, was
because I was with Jed for our first and only time. That infidelity saved my
life but almost cost me my sanity.”
Luke
frowned. He was uncertain whether she had spoken the truth, but unable to prove
it a lie. The file suggested the affair had been going on for months, based
entirely on second-hand speculation. However, the only night the investigator
could actually verify the two had stayed in a hotel room together was the night
of the murder.
“The
reporters were horrible, stalking me day and night. I couldn’t stand it. I quit
the station and moved to a new town, changed my name to Carla Simon and hid in
my house, too afraid to go out in case I might be recognized.”
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error-proof both in presentation and in content. The result is beautifully
written and completely accurate stories about real people and events.
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husband tried to kill her three times. (So much for finding nicer people.) Then
one day she declared enough, got a better job, divorced her husband, and fell
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Oh Stupid Heart — The heart wants what it wants, even if it’s
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Coming to Reason — There is a breaking point when even a saint
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Thanks for having me over. The momma cat twice moved her kittens to me car. The other time, I stopped by my step mother & Dad's house and left them under a tippd over clothes basket. But I missed one. But he cried before I went into the bank, so I dumped out all the unneeded items from my purse and put the kitten inside. Again it was too hot for the kitten to survive in a parked car. So I'm standing in line for a teller and the kitten starts crying. People are staring, looking about for the kitten, so I do the same. Everyone, including me, is looking about trying to make sense of the matter. I was such a good actress back then.
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