Jones' Tooth Ache

By D. E. Harrison

Popping corn Jones bites into an ‘old maid,’ “Boy that hurts, and I checked for ‘old maids.’”
Rage rushes to his side as he spits a few things into his hand, “Does it hurt?”
“What do you think?”
“Don’t move, I have just what you need,” coming back she hands him a greenish wad of maybe cotton, “Put this on your tooth. Granny’s best for tooth pain.” He hurts enough to try anything.
She says, “You can see my dentist on Monday. You may need several wads for your tooth.”
She continues, “Can you still pull the taffy? If not, I will.”
“Yes, the tooth is feeling better, let’s pull it.”
The taffy goes a little cool and Rage likes it warm She cuts several pieces and puts them in her micro-wave oven for a short time. They come out just right for pulling.

Later Rage asks, “What would you do if it happened in the field?”
“They have a tooth repair kit, it can fix anything; besides, there is no popcorn in the field.”
“You have one right? I will get it and fix that tooth,” which she does.
A call to the Colonel and in two days an army dentist repairs the tooth, and all is fine.

A week later at Rage’s home, she warms some taffy and Jones goes to the floor screaming.
Jones gets up off the floor, “Are you ok, what happened? It could not be your tooth is it?”
“My tooth about killed me, I had nothing in my mouth, nothing was touching it. Maybe a delayed reaction. I am fine now. Maybe I should go home.”
“No way. You could be driving when it happens again. You are here until I can get you into my dentist.”
“If you are now fine, what were you doing that caused it to go off?”
They can find nothing to explain the pain.

Rage notices, “The taffy is cold, I will give it 4-seconds,” Jones screams on the floor until the timer dings.

The next morning early, Rage has her micro-wave oven checked for leakage, but nothing is found. They call the Colonel with their suspicions. Rage and Jones go down the same day to the military base. He meets them at the gate, a most unusual event for the gate guards. The Colonel directs them to a building guarded by MPs, and they are at every door in the building. The dentist that fixed the tooth last week has a temporary office set up in the building.

Will they fix Jones’ tooth? Why are the two of them on the shooting range blowing away metal targets and have assigned to them, their own personal MP? Also they have their own room in this secret building with MPs at every hall junction!”
What secret experiments have they walked into? Is this another event that never happened?

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Nov 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005828318

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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Jones’ Tooth Ache

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2021 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Event

Chapter 2 the Sunday Shift is Over

Chapter 3 The Dentist

Chapter 4 The Next Shooting Date

Chapter 5 Returning Home

Chapter 6 The Over Night Stay

Chapter 7 Getting Close

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Introduction

Detective Rage

The rookie homicide Detective Janette Rage has been on the Police force for almost eight years. Her badge number is 7304. She is bright, aggressive, and dedicated to the job. She takes a fair amount of ribbing about her last name and the color of her hair. It usually goes on until they see her empty a clip of sixteen rounds at twenty yards into a 4-inch circle. She shoots a competition matched pair of Colt 45s. If that is not enough, she will crack a few ribs, and she will do it again in the gym.

She is a very attractive young woman but with a real bang. She picked the spot she wanted to finish in the final ranking as a patrolman. She is always looking down the road before she jumps. In slow or almost instant decisions, she is way down the road when she makes one. She appears to be a little too quick in judging situations, but she has yet to be shown wrong.

Three years earlier, she had completed the Detective training course at the academy. She finished in second place; the other woman there finished twelfth out of the fifteen total candidates. In such a large metropolitan police force, her new duty assignment could have been one of many. She did not know until Monday after graduation her exact assignment.

Just seven days after graduation and four days on the job Detective Rage shows up for duty, she finds herself in a fatal multiple shooting investigation. The rookie Detective Rage has been involved in more fatal multiple shootings investigations than most see in a lifetime. That does not count the fatal multiple shootings she has been personally involved in. A homicide Detective may be considered a rookie for four years or more.

The wheels turn a little faster in dispatch