Onyx Bryan

The Safeway felt innocuous to the outside eye, save for the suspicious lack of activity surrounding it. The fragile illusion was swiftly broken by the blaring of sirens and the appearance of an inordinate number of cop cars. They all did impressive coordinated wheelies before parking around one of the entrances in a semicircle. Seemingly forgetting that there was a second main entrance, and several back entrances they might have needed to cover. Within the semicircle, parked at a dramatic...

Detective John Franks of the Seattle Police Department entered the conference room, irritated. He didn't want to be in a meeting; there were too many people committing silly crimes in these streets. Normally, these crimes wouldn’t interest an SPD officer, but Detective Franks was also a prolific member of the Fun Police. Franks closed the door, then sat on the other side of the table from his boss in the Fun Police, Rebecca W., and her assistant, Lynn. (Rebecca W. continuously insists on...

Detective John Franks led a fully armored SWAT team down the hall of an apartment complex in Northgate. Every one of them was hand-picked for their mastery of the high-knee tiptoeing art of stealth. This technique was passed down from intelligence agencies after studying bank robbers who had broken into banks and gotten away with stealing whole dollar sign bags of money with none the wiser. Now, with this technique in hand, the SWAT team tiptoed their way down the hall to apprehend the...