A unique and shocking fictional story (based on facts) of the growing discontent of the Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington areas. A story of city government, policy-making, the rights and wrongs done, and the fates of several families who have lost children, who decide to take matters into their own hands.
In the early 2020s, just after the Covid pandemic, homelessness in Portland has grown exponentially. Across the river, Vancouver homelessness is rising. These cities are unprepared to address this problem. Crime has spread through all downtown neighborhoods. Parts of both cities are burning. A new methamphetamine mix has hit the streets. An ineffectual law reigns in the City of Roses. And a storm of change is brewing.
The Norton’s were a tight family, successful in that middle class way that American families have thrived in past decades. Not rich, not perfect, but together. The combination of drugs and homelessness deals them a tragedy they could never be prepared for. They grieve, they meet violence with violence, they protect their family and others. An growing community of people throughout the area are weary of the violence, crime and drugs and decide to do something. That something isn’t legal, it isn’t ethical, it may not be right.
Jadual kandungan
CONTENTS
1. Preface
2. City of Rose(s)
3. Predators
4. The Wanderer
5. Prey
6. News
7. Problems
8. More news
9. Old Town
10. Delta Park
11. The Good Ones
12. A Bad One
13. Bad Seeds
14. Thursday, April 21st
15. Three Days Later
16. A Scary Dude
17. Parks and Rec
18. More news
19. Support Team
20. Alex Stoner
21. Susan Norton
22. Alex’s epitaph
23. Louis and Kai
24. The Norton family
25. Wandering Informant
26. John the Destroyer
27. The Mayoral Office
28. Katie the Explosive
29. Mr Norton goes to City Hall
30. 311
31. Ride-share
32. A Marked Man
33. News and Obit
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34. Funeral
35. Examinations
36. The First
37. Coping
38. Suspects
39. The Second
40. News at 11
41. Public Response
42. Ralph the Third
43. ‘Attacks on our homeless’
44. The Nortons
45. At camp
46. Genie Out of the Bottle
47. Office of the City Manager
48. In force to enforce
49. The Fifth
50. With Care
51. Recalling
52. Kung Fu Kai
53. The Center
54. The V word
55. Questioning the Nortons
56. Mistakes were made
57. Katie the Choleric
58. The Seventh
59. Public
60. Big Men
61. Badasses
62. Katie Frees Herself
63. John the Innocent
64. Land of the Free
65. Beginning of the End
66. The End?
67. Aftermath