Alterlude #2Suzanne Jacqueline Roberts, Esq., Attorney at Law, Inc., frowned at life, disgusted.
She looked out the window of her old brick office building and sneezed. Oh, no, she thought, not another cold. But she knew from the rush of heat that followed it was too late—she'd already caught it. That's the third one this year. That's what I get for sitting in a cold, drafty building, day after day, in the middle of winter.
She blew her nose and shook her head at herself, then returned her attention to the legal brief in front of her. The Friend-of-the-Court brief had been filed on behalf of a plaintiff suing Mountain Power for destruction of habitat on her twenty-acre farm downhill from a powerline clearcut, the runoff from a cloudburst a year ago having washed away the topsoil and the
