Dr Jacqueline Coombe
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815 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Dr Jacqueline Coombe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I left Dad's tracking journal on the table, marveling at the obsession that had apparently consumed much of his final years.
It stung to realize he probably never told me because he knew I would, at best, humor him.
Sorry, Dad.
I sighed.
Penny looked up at me with puzzled eyes.
Nothing, girl, I said, just realizing we were both keeping secrets.
Penny woke me, snarling and snapping at the bedroom window, as I had only ever heard her do at bears and bobcats.
Adrenaline swept away grogginess.
Easy, girl.
I hauled myself out of bed, thinking a cougar might have climbed into the rickety balcony.
I flicked on the table lamp, feeling for the shotgun under the bed.
As Penny barked and jumped at the window, I nosed the barrel between the curtains and drew one partly aside.
I couldn't breathe.
In the glow of the ancient lamp, the creature outside my window looked like a ghost.
A moon-pale, living version of the corpse beside my front drive perched on my banister.
The light startled them, and their heads snapped around quick as an owl's.
I could see all the details of Dad's indistinct photo,
now clear and irrefutable.
They crouched with feathered arms, resting knuckle down on the banister, just as in the picture their eyes shone bright and round as new coins, reflecting the lamp's glare.
A dark beak streamlined cheeks and jaw into one narrow shape, smeared with remnants of whatever they had been eating.
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