Hi everyone. This collection of tales was recorded over the past year for YouTube.

They were originally envisioned as a bunch that would wander away from Chouhorah a little,

and wouldn't quite have a place here. But ten stories later, that didn't turn out to be so much the case.

On track mind I guess. So here are those YouTube tales if you haven't heard them already.

With some parts re-recorded to make up for the lack of visuals as far as they were. Talk to you later.

9 years I chased Olivia. 9 years can it be? Dortmund, Kiel,

LePas, La Serena, Fort Elasa. Then weeks ago I found myself driving East Downroot 522 in the lower part

of a state I'd never been to until it became Ocean Boulevard. At 10 o'clock at night everything was

lit up, all the miniature golf courses, the seafood restaurants, the donut shops, the t-shirt stores,

dairy queen, sunsations, Ronnie's beach shack, the Ripley's believe it or not museum. Traffic was light, it was 20 degrees outside.

I took a ride on the third street and cruised through a scruffy, quiet, sandy neighborhood, six blocks from the beach,

crooked houses with names like sea swept, starfish, cove, August house.

Rooms with kitchenettes available by the week, see you next May.

I parked the car and texted Binky, I was here. Any answer in five seconds? I walked to six

street and got inside his pickup truck. For the last time I said, how do you know it's her?

And he said she hadn't moved from the house in two days and two nights, who else would she be?

The information was reliable. He'd slept maybe six hours and all that time.

From that moment on we would each do a shift. The spot that Binky had chosen was a clever one,

screened in two directions by trees and a trailer park beside the neighborhood.

I sent him off to go eat pancakes and check into the spin drift in, 44 bucks a night.

And I'd pulled into the space ten minutes after he left. And I watched the house and watched it for

11 hours. Olivia did not come out. When my shift was over I walked, the boardwalk,

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