Crime Fiction By T’Naus Nieto I tried to control my breathing. My heart knocked against my rib cage. My stomach was in knots, and at times I had to fight the urge to vomit. I knew what I was doing was good, but I couldn’t help but feel bad about it. I comforted myself withContinue reading “Fun in the Sun”
Monthly Archives: May 2024
True Crime: A Letter from Sheri
True Crime By Cheryl Gyant “A Letter from Sheri” is a story inspired by the 1986 California serial killer murders executed by Charles Ng and Leonard Lake. Cheryl Gyant, the author says “I began writing a book in 2001 about how it felt to be adopted. As a child, I was led to believe thatContinue reading “True Crime: A Letter from Sheri”
His Wandering Days Are Over
Flash Fiction By Jim Harrington Charlie sat in his favorite chair, hands on his knees, head tilted to one side. A steak knife protruded from his neck. Ellen, naked, used a cloth napkin to remove Bolognese sauce from her petite breast. “You aren’t hungry? That’s not like you. Spaghetti is your favorite.” She leaned forward,Continue reading “His Wandering Days Are Over”
How Not to Take the Fall
Crime Fiction By Marco Etheridge “What should we do with the body?” Louis Pyne squats on his haunches beside the corpse. The boathouse is cold as a meat locker. A massive hangover is dancing a tarantella six-eight time inside his skull, and the two guys standing behind Lou are making him nervous. At least they’reContinue reading “How Not to Take the Fall”
Travel: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Crime Travel By Chris Bunton We traveled to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where I did some research on Mobster Owney Madden Hot Springs, Arkansas from its inception was a place of healing. A place sacred to the native peoples of the region. A place where the hot springs were captured and incorporated into bath houses. AContinue reading “Travel: Hot Springs, Arkansas”
Story Of An Encounter
Crime Fiction By Paul Perilli It’s not a surprise my friends and neighbors no longer bring up the once famed and much-discussed case of an unsolved murder in our quiet Brooklyn neighborhood. Shocking as it was at the time, it went the way of most news. Other topics came up. What took place over aContinue reading “Story Of An Encounter”
Visiting Mom
Flash Fiction By Seamus O’ Leary Nubs drove his grey 1990 Lincoln Town Car through the toll plaza on I-90 in Chicago, while holding his cell phone to his ear with the three fingers of his left hand. “I’m going to visit with my ma. I’ll only be a little bit, and then I’ll meetContinue reading “Visiting Mom”
Do No Harm Or Injustice
Crime Fiction by C.D. Baxter Marquis fired potshots from his Glock as the rattlesnake wound across the floor toward the pile of ballooned-up black tar heroin tucked inside his living room fireplace. He’d come home jacked-up, nodding in the entryway. The heaven of his high vanished once he blasted a round into his right footContinue reading “Do No Harm Or Injustice”
A Scene Illuminating the Perils of Truancy
Crime Fiction By B.W. Carter So, yeah, this boy, he’s standing on his usual corner, right, watching traffic dissolve into the vast white wash of the sun. The day is loud as a concert and very bright. The boy is slouching against a streetlamp. Squinting into the beeping, belching exhaust-sweet bustle, he smokes his lastContinue reading “A Scene Illuminating the Perils of Truancy”
You got Faith. I got Works.
Western Fiction By Matthew Senn Marshal’d come back on a wagon that wasn’t his, pulled by a horse that sure as hell wasn’t his either. Coming to a crawl outside Farrell’s’, a group of us gathered to greet ‘im. He didn’t smile. His face & the cross onnis neck covered with dust. A fresh bulletContinue reading “You got Faith. I got Works.”