This week’s episode is a wild one.I’m about to go dark for ninety days, and before I do, I want to set the record straight. No, I’m not soul-searching in Bali or joining a silent monastery. The truth is… much stranger, far funnier, and way more personal.

It all begins with a woman named Clarissa—yes, say it like a sigh—and a curbside pickup shift that pushed my life clean off the rails. From there? A chain reaction of incidents, citations, and one very patient local officer. Think runaway shopping carts, questionable “romantic gestures,” and choices that snowballed faster than I could catch them.

I won’t spoil the ending—but trust me, even I didn’t see it coming.

So buckle up.This is the story I need to tell before I’m offline for ninety days… give or take good behavior.

Detective Sarah Chen steps into an abandoned garage to confront the one man who may finally expose the truth behind a young girl’s murder—and the haunting gaps in her own memory. As the night unravels, Sarah is forced into a deadly game of confession, deception, and consequences she can no longer outrun. / Buy the ebook - “The Lethean” by J.L. Stroud, Jr. at www.jlstroudjr.com

When the world goes silent, Syrena Gomez knows she’s not alone. An empath in a city that never stops feeling, she’s lived her life drowning in other people’s emotions, until the night it all vanishes. In the silence stands him: a man who radiates nothingness, a human black hole the forums call - The Atlanta Void. + Download the eBook - The Lethean at www.jlstroudjr.com