3️⃣ Volumes of Journals 

This Week’s Dose of Fiction 

Not Now - Not Yet

Quinn hasn’t opened the boxes in years.

They’re stacked neatly, labeled in her handwriting. Dates. Locations. Case names that still carry weight.

She and Riley sit on the floor. Quinn lifts a lid.

Inside are journals. Hundreds of pages. Observations. Decisions. Consequences. All of it reviewed, approved, redacted, released.

“This is my life,” Quinn says. Not proudly. Just factually.

Riley flips through a few pages, careful.

“So what will you do with them?” she asks.

Quinn shrugs. “I don’t know. But they’re done.”

Riley feels it before she understands it.

Done is a word she can’t use yet.