Peril in the Park: A Hemisphere Story, #1

By G Oldman

In Hemisphere, the night is lethal.

Police Sergeant Daniel Corgan and his family have just moved to the seemingly ordinary town of Hemisphere. He and his children quickly discover that new dangers lurk in the night. An evil is roaming the streets that has already claimed one victim – and now has its sights on the kids.

A chain smoking, guardian angel isn't going to be enough to protect them. They need to learn the ropes of living in the not-so-quaint town - and fast - if they want to survive.

In Hemisphere, anything can happen. And something always does.

Peril in the Park is a Hemisphere Story. G Oldman along with writers Billy Baltimore, JJ Belding and Kit Nash have built Hemisphere and are chronicling the town and its residents. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Stoesen
• Release date: May 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386698715

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Peril in the Park

A Hemisphere Story

G. Oldman

Copyright © 2017 G Oldman

All rights reserved.

To the Sprinters, Good friends one and all. Thank you for making Hemisphere happen.

Epigraph

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy.

-David Remnick

Chapter 1: New Day, New Perils

Sergeant Daniel Corgan had been on the job in Hemisphere for just under a year. He transferred with his family to this out of the way town to get flee from the urban angst of Atlanta. However, that short amount of time here showed him that small towns can be many things. For instance, the current case he was called out of bed to address.

He parked on the grass in the center of the small park. Exiting his patrol car, Daniel walked up to the ambulance. The paramedics were working on a woman in hysterics. She lay on the ground. They hadn't beaten him by much.

As he approached, he could see that her legs were covered in blood. The dispatcher said something about a dog attack. He saw a significant bite on her right calf and multiple bites on her left. To her side lay a cell phone she must have used to call nine-one-one.

He pulled out his notepad and jotted down his initial impressions of the scene. He stood back to let the paramedics do their work. When one of the paramedics lifted a hypodermic needle, Daniel stopped him.

Hey, do you mind if I ask her a question before you drug her up?

The paramedic looked annoyed at first but just nodded his head as his partner continued to tend to her wounds. He examined the woman and noted she was already on something. Her glassy eyes had trouble focusing.

Daniel leaned in to the woman and asked, Excuse me, Miss? May I ask you a few questions?

She rolled her head and looked up at him. It was frickin' huge! Never seen a damn two headed dog before. One head bit each leg. I tell you it had the devil in its eyes. Ha! But I bet it never saw my mace coming.

She looked to the ground and found her can of mace. Thrusting it triumphantly in the air, she pressed the button on it.

Aaaagggh! The paramedic working on her legs rolled to the side and cursed violently. Corgan sidestepped and snatched the can out of her hands.

Well that explained how someone as lit as this lady scared off a determined dog.

Ma'am, Please don't do that again. What's your name?

The paramedic didn't get a direct dose of the chemical in his eyes but enough to burn. The second medic gave Daniel a dirty look then grabbed the eyewash from their gear bag and flushed his partner's eyes.

Who, me? She slurred. Why I am Cynthia Potter. And I... Huugggghhhheeaaaahhhh.

Her eyes crossed, and she leaned to her left and threw up an amazing amount of material. For a tall but thin woman, it appeared that she let loose half of her body weight in vomit.

The paramedics just sighed and went back to work. Different day, same situations. Soon they had her legs cleaned and bandaged. Cynthia