Related Chapters (2)
The Testimony
Words: 2795 · Source Novel:: Blood on the Border Mail
In a closed-door deposition for the revived Postal Service v. Konan case, Elias testifies for six hours. Federal prosecutors listen without expression. When he emerges, the sky over the capital is a strange copper color. He is told he has no job, no security clearance, no future in government. He feels lighter than air.
Konan Holdings
Words: 2047 · Source Novel:: Blood on the Border Mail
Elias investigates Konan Holdings, the shell corporation named as defendant in the quiet federal case Postal Service v. Konan. He discovers the company owns a chain of abandoned way stations along the border, each one a scar in the desert. A retired postal inspector named Miriam Vega warns him to stop digging.

