{"product_id":"faultlines","title":"Fault Lines","description":"\u003cp\u003eI worked crisis in Sagebrush City, a desert city in the Southwest. The earthquake hit at 4:17 in the morning, an hour when everybody is either asleep, committing a felony, or eating shredded cheese over the sink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names have been changed, and so have a lot of the details, to protect everyone, including me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe power went out. The office phones went dead. The cops weren't answering, and the ambulances weren't coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere in the city were people no evacuation plan had remembered, because nobody had admitted they existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank pulled into the office lot in his ancient Buick. Cajun Jerry showed up wearing one leather glove, with bottled water, blankets, three crowbars, and a chainsaw in the bed of his truck. Tallulah arrived in a city maintenance truck nobody had issued her, wearing a city hard hat and a vest that said INCIDENT COMMANDER.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo we went looking. We pulled people out of damaged apartments, flooded camps, cracked motels, parking structures, abandoned houses, and places nobody had realized anybody lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe took twelve people to a shelter in the bed of Jerry's pickup, under a tarp that said HAPPY RETIREMENT, COACH DAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFault Lines is also about leaving. One of us married a nice, wealthy man who wanted her out of the trenches. The side diamonds on her ring looked like '80s headlights. We told her to go, and we meant it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book ends with my own answers to two questions: would I do the work again, and why did I stop?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFault Lines\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of ten Sagebrush City books. Read them in any order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEbook (epub), delivered right after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded free: \u003c\/strong\u003eJukebox, a short bonus Sagebrush City book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality Services Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54152600060088,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/4459\/2824\/files\/Fault_Lines_1500x1200T.png?v=1790882451","url":"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/products\/faultlines","provider":"Reality Services Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}