L. J Breedlove

NEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY. When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right: social distancing, testing before the trip, masks, no parties. But no one told her, or the team, or the alumni aboard the trip, the truth: a coach came down with COVID and had to be left behind on a ventilator in Boise. The COVID numbers are rising in Portland. At the university. And...

Janet Andrews is a respected journalist and editor. But once, she was someone else. Now, they're coming for her, and this time? They aren't going to let her go. Mac Davis still isn't sure how he ended up being a cop reporter. But he's pretty sure he wouldn't still be a reporter if it wasn't for Janet Andrews. He probably would be in jail, if not dead. So he owes her. And he knows it. Now, she's in trouble. She's being hunted. Mac doesn't plan to...

When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist - nothing before age 10 really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home life, he would have said his adoptive parents loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't deserve the wild teen he became.So what about the scars on his arm? Or his stomach? What about the images that haunt his nightmares?If you can't trust...

Is Blood Really Thicker than Water? Life is good. Mac Davis, a former Marine, is now a cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. He's had stories nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has a reputation as a hard-nosed reporter, and a good man to have at your back when trouble comes knocking. And even Mac admits, around him, trouble usually does. He has a career, a girlfriend, even a house. He has friends. He belongs. But his past is knocking on the...

The student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland has a lot of balls in the air: a series on homelessness, a new look at why downtown is so empty, an investigation into the man who tried to kill some of the staff, and a whole host of other stories. Plenty to keep them all busy, the news editor thought. And now what? A war in Ukraine? How was she supposed to cover that? Still reeling from the recent events, the staff gears up to try to do the story...

She's Not Going to RunBianca Parks is the face of the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland, Oregon. She's the person everyone sees on the nightly newscast, the most recognizable face - more than the editor-in-chief, more than anyone. She describes herself as a Blacktina - both a Black woman and a Latina. And she's been the target of hate and abuse online since she first walked up on the anchor set and smiled at the camera.The online hate has been...

Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol.Candace Marshall doesn't know what she likes - being married to an abusive husband does that. She came to Alaska to kill herself: figured it was easy there, just pick a trail and keep going. Something will get you, the terrain, the wildlife, or the weather. But she discovered something she did like - Alaska. And after all, that trail would always be there.Then...

What would you do to keep a secret? Bob Anderson ­­- local banker, city council member, and now murder victim - had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them. Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper. She's got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and Texas in general - she tells her friends back home these are her foreign correspondent...

Someone is Hunting ThemNine-year-old Jazzy needs the Video Man, her own private superhero, because Ms.Carroll has gone missing. Cage Washington doesn't think he's a superhero at all, but he's got friends, and they'll do their best to rescue Carroll. But it isn't just Carroll they're hunting. There is a forced conversion therapy camp operating somewhere outside of Portland. And for a price, they'll kidnap your LGBTQIA kid and 'fix' them.And they want...

They Were Promised A HomeBeta wolves. Powerful, dominant wolves banished by their birth packs because they were a threat to their pack Alphas. Cast out as lone wolves, they drifted, solitary yet belonging to a species that yearned to belong. Some found a place in the military. Some found other places. But there was always the danger of the first rule - do nothing that reveals shifters to humans. Betas who did, found an enforcer on their doorstep....