title: Finding Time
author: Katie Cameron
description: Katie Cameron and her husband, Ken, divide their time between Olympia, Washington and Alameda, California. Katie has published book reviews and articles in several magazines, a number of poems in anthologies, and self-published two poetry chapbooks, "BARE" and "California Diaries."
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  When The Time Comes
  
  
  Adele O’ Neill
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Part One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1.
  
  
  ‘Liam, what are you doing here at this hour?’ Louise – or to give her full
  title, Detective Sergeant Louise Kennedy, Unit Head at Blackrock Garda Station
  – looks me directly in the eye as she pushes back the interview room door,
  making it almost impossible for me to look away. She pulls a closed file from
  under her arm and places it on the table before slapping a notebook with a
  blank page open on top of it. Only then does she take her seat across the
  table from me, throwing a glance over her shoulder as she waits for the door
  to click closed behind her. It’s not even half six in the morning but every
  ounce of her seems dense with strength, her angles as sharp as her tone. When
  she stiffens her back, the only softness about her is around her front; the
  bump of her pregnancy looks like it doesn’t belong there. Maybe I should have
  left well enough alone. The timing couldn’t have been worse. I