The Six Story Fault

By Kenny Jackson

Two smashed bodies are found at the foot of an elementary school. Bill McCoy is called of his current case, another murder, to investigate. He doesn’t know why - until he sees the bodies. One of them isn’t exactly human.

“The Six Story Fault” is a solvable science fiction mystery set in a deeply detailed world. It is written in the vein of an Asimov robot story, and inspired by Alan Moore’s Watchmen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenny Jackson
• Release date: May 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310754104

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The Six Story Fault

By Kenny Jackson

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2015 Kenny Jackson, all rights reserved

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Title Page

The Story

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April 14th, 10:51am

Detective Bill McCoy sped down the empty freeway, wondering why his murder wasn’t good enough.

Recheck yesterday’s big crime scene, the radio operator said. Because the chief thinks we missed something, the radio operator said.

An obvious lie, McCoy thought. The killer had confessed. And every single tiny morsel of evidence corroborated the killer’s confession, no leftovers. The evidence, that was the part McCoy cared about.

McCoy clicked his car's taillight on-off and saw Brookfield school. The place was a preserved historic with real blackboards and everything. McCoy had been inside four times. Three for career days, and then there had been yesterday. McCoy yanked his e brake, piled out, kicked the car door shut, and aimed for yellow, crime-scene tape.

Police, reporters, and more bunched too thick against the puny plastic rope. Reporters crammed outside, cops barricaded inside. McCoy stretched his badge above the muddle and a patrolman lifted the thin yellow line.

Two bodies lay face down and covered. They were new. McCoy didn’t care to guess why he’d been called in, back