Antonio always left too late for work. His job was exactly 12 minutes away on a good day. He knew this because he had timed the commute. His shift started in 10 minutes and he frantically sped towards the Ritz Carlton in White Plains, NY. Two blocks from work he encountered stopped cars.…
A vacation was just what Liza Peeza needed after finishing her first semester at PACE University in Manhattan, New York. Her ambition in life had always been to become a lawyer. The reality of long days of school, studying, and temporary jobs had taken their toll. Liza met her sister AJ and they…
That morning had just been bad from the moment Liza Jane opened her eyes, awakened by the sound of her cell phone being hurled off the dresser by Toby, the cat. A slight headache from the stressful day she had yesterday still lingered. The silver lining of Toby waking her up…
The Unsuspecting Victim. Marie knew it was personal, that officer always stared her down when she dropped her kids off at the elementary school. Officer Smith had always held a grudge against her husband for losing the baseball championship game in junior college. And that morning had been one of…
As the New York State Trooper’s bright flashing lights shone through Daniels back window, he felt his heart pound and a wave of nausea. By the time the officer got to his window, his face was covered in a cold sweat. The day had started off bad, and had progressed…
The following is a true story: At 8:33a on April 25th 2014, Courtney Ann Stanford posted on Facebook: “The happy song makes me HAPPY!” Friends and family also state she was posting selfies. This would be Courtney’s last post, and last feeling she expressed. At 8:34a, one minute after her last FB post,…
It happens more often than you think. If it has not happened to you, you probably know someone who it has happened to: Monique works in Hastings-on-the-Hudson, New York. After a long day at work, she is driving home to Mt. Vernon, NY. Monique is a good driver and has…
Traffic tickets are unexpected and can be confusing, and like mosquitos, they can be annoying. They can blemish a clean driving record or be the nail in the coffin for a driver with points on his driver’s license. The looming question every driver asks who has received a traffic infraction…
Excitedly, Esther walks to her mailbox eager to get her new cell phone case she ordered from Amazon. Flipping through her mail, she sees a letter from the New York State Department of Motor vehicles (DMV). Curious to see what the letter says, she drops everything and rips it open.…
It was not your lucky day. You were in Yonkers, New York driving on I-87 southbound to the Bronx, NY to eat at your favorite Spanish restaurant when you got pulled over by a police officer. Even though you were very nice and respectful to the officer, he gave you…