Chapter One“What have I done?”
Partial amnesia softened Big Daddy's features as he daydreamed. He was haunted by something or someone.
“I'm expiating a crime or sin I've committed sometime in the distant past, and I damn well can't remember where or when.” Joseph 'Big Daddy' Williams Jr. grumbled to himself, alone at the computer console in 3026 Common Time. “It's not fair. Only the Chief Madam would know, and she's not telling.” He hated the woman in shifting veils he called the Chief. He didn't know her identity; wouldn't until too late.
Big Daddy patted his stomach and thought of supper at home in Morningvale, Alberta. “Mmmm, food. Ham, biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn fritters, okra and fried grits. Mmmm good southern American cooking like my mama used to mak
