Hurricane Season
2020 ~ 1 ~ May Fielding was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway, heading north. The car she was driving in was a Mustang convertible, which had, ever since she could remember, been the car of her dreams. The person she was going to see was the very same person who had given her that Mustang, more than four years earlier. May was from the south. Northern Louisiana. She was a freelance writer with good relationships with half a dozen music publications. Her most important client was Rolling Stone. Not only did they pay the best, but they also provided her with access to some of the biggest names in the music business. May was in her mid-thirties, still young by human standards but old enough to have seen the last decades of the great bands and singer-songwriters. Ryan Gamble, whom she had not seen in over a year and a half, was one of them. Riding high, on a wave of ten platinum albums and six world tours. Ryan had suddenly dropped out of sight. May figured, having been summoned to