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Return To Shandy Bay Part 2

A Sunny Alexander-Johnson and Henry James Series By P.G. & Sharon Barnett

P.G. Barnett
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5 min readJul 24, 2020

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My name is Sunny Alexander-Johnson, and I’m Henry James, and we’re writers for Dark Sides of the Truth magazine.

Part 1

We were just about to leave when Rick strolled out of his office into the bullpen. Most of the writers had straggled in and were getting their morning beverages and firing up their computers. We’d had a chance to speak with Roberto De La Cruz when he’d arrived and found out it would be another two weeks before his partner, Tim Rice would be able to come back to work.

In our opinions, Tim and Roberto should feel very lucky they were still alive. If we hadn’t found them in those barrels at Uttar Textiles, they would have ended up dead and sitting at the bottom of the Colorado River.

“James? You and Johnson wait up a minute. De La Cruz!”

“Yes sir?”

“Uh, don’t make me have to yell across the bullpen. Come over here, son.”

Roberto placed his coffee mug on his desk and ambled over.

“Yes sir?”

“Okay, since you’re short a partner I want you to hang with James and Johnson on the story they’re about to…

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P.G. Barnett
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A published author enjoying married Texas bliss. Dog person living with cats. A writer of Henry James' stories. Featured In MuckRack. Top Writer In Fiction.