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Tilting at Windmills: Archie and Blood-Thirsty Predators on the Move # 21

When Special Agent Clayton Yonder came to my house at noon for lunch, it was so, so nice to be ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS: Archie and Fact-Finding #20

After Special Agent Clayton Yonder shot (blanks) from his .4-0-caliber Glock pistol to scare off rioters outside Park Department headquarters, ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Angry Mob #19

Had someone asked me to come up with a thousand different scenarios about how our war against Terror Birds would ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Picnic #18

I have this vivacious 17-year-old friend named Ellen. I think she wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Press Conference; The Terror Bird # 17

When Special Investigator Clayton Yonder (a.k.a. my boyfriend) came out on the podium of the Gossamer Gardens ballroom to speak ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Press Conference. Opening Statements #16

Soon after the DNA lab results on the feather came back to the Avian Slaughter Task Force, Special Investigator Clayton ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie … in Love and War # 15

If you give it a moment’s thought, you might agree that love and war are not mutually exclusive. Consider, for ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Archie and the Hybrid Executioner #14

Okay. So, as things stood in my living room on that Saturday morning, our bellies were full of bagels, but ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie, and Vlad the Impaler #13

There is something comfortably anti-climactic about sitting down with fellow-investigators after a wildly energetic period of evidence collection. When, with ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Avian Slaughter Task Force #12

After I arrived home – accompanied by Archie and our new friend Daffney, the normal-sized and weirdly adorable chickadee – ..


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