THE TAKEOUT   Diaries of an Insurance Property Inspector   Tim Driscoll		ISSUE NO. 1
	(...) Crossing the meridian, I opted to park on Channing Street, just beyond the vantage point of Earl’s front windows. Parking out of sight of the insured meant I could come back to my car after the inspection and write my report uninterrupted. There were two rules for safe property inspection: always anticipate hostility, and get outdoors and out of sight as soon as possible. Lingering in my car in front of a property I was declining to insure was an invitation for conflict (...) TIM DRISCOLL is a lifelong Bostonian. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, where he wrote about the declining influence of the Republican Party on African-American voters after the New Deal. He put his degree to work as a property inspector in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He gave it up, but it still haunts his fiction.