Lane von Herzen: Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Monday, August 24, 2026

Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to the attention of your Office.

Please confirm receipt of the notarized documentation at your earliest convenience.

August 25, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Title Clerk Approval, sent at 9:40 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Second Notarization, August 25, 2026, sent at 9:28 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: LM Notarized Affidavit, August 25, 2026, sent at 8:37 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 25, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:58 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 7:55 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update Regarding August 24, 2026, sent at 7:16 AM Mountain Standard Time.

August 24, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battery Notification, FYI, sent at 11:37 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Updated Notarized Affidavits, August 24, 2026, Confidential, sent at 9:18 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Formal Claim of Awards from August 15, 2026 Until the Current Time, sent at 6:43 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 24, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 6:33 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 6:30 AM Mountain Standard Time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 6:27 AM Mountain Standard Time.