Getting the Story Out, Part 1: The Dead Drop

My initiation into the most dangerous secret in America

2025 was not yet halfway over. Word had spread in the community that I was innocent of the sexual assaults that had spread around the Puget Sound region. The tide in my decade-long war with the gangstalkers had seemed to have taken a turn, and somehow I’d managed to keep myself and my mother alive.

I was still holding down the software engineering job t…