Flash Fiction by Michael Fontana Jake grew tense as he scanned the convenience store’s racks with their candy and condoms and Coke cans neatly lined up. The lone straggler in the store was a ragged black man purchasing lottery tickets, scratchers that the clerk behind the counter offered him with haste. But the process boggedContinue reading “Shoplifter”
Category Archives: Criminal
Nothing’s Changed
Great Flash Fiction by KT Bartlett I needed to focus. What I wanted to do was keep driving past the house, but we had a job to do. My hands clenched the wheel as I pulled into the narrow dirt driveway and maneuvered the car to a stop. Xavier Hillman sat in the passenger seatContinue reading “Nothing’s Changed”
A Career in Crime: AKA The Convict Codes Vol.11
Crime Fiction by David Hagerty As I studied the other convicts in that tight, airless classroom, the pre-release teacher passed around a resumé template mimeographed in inky, old-school purple. “For now, just fill in the blanks,” she said. “We’ll type it up later to make it pretty.” Funny word to use in prison, pretty, butContinue reading “A Career in Crime: AKA The Convict Codes Vol.11”
God Is Bleeding
Crime Fiction by London Baker I hardly recognized the bloody pulp that stared back at me from the mirror. I glanced at my bruised knuckles, a paint splatter of greens and purples. Always throw your punch with the top two knuckles. That’s what Blake Culman—the man who taught me to fight—had once told me. IContinue reading “God Is Bleeding”
The Quarry
Flash Fiction By Jason Smith Alex and his car were found at the same quarry where the man from 1984 was buried. The front of his car was a crumbled wreck. He had driven through a barricade and rolled down a hill before plunging to his final resting place. His autopsy showed his alcohol limitContinue reading “The Quarry”
Interrogation Of A Suspicious Citizen
Flash Fiction by Bill Kitcher I was standing around, as usual, doing nothing, but this time in front of my house, when a cop car pulled into the driveway. Two cops got out of the car. They appeared to me to be as large as elephants, one even bigger than the other, with the sameContinue reading “Interrogation Of A Suspicious Citizen”
Dancing Dolls
Crime Fiction By Rena Robinett The night DeK met Tyla was not a good one for him. DeK, as he’d renamed himself after a desperation-filled adolescent idea had morphed into a company that became worldwide slang, was a half hacker whose one creative thought had made him very rich. After his former nerd buddies refusedContinue reading “Dancing Dolls”
The Bodyguard
Flash Fiction by Roy Dorman Jeremy Fulton is enjoying his morning coffee in a little deli off 45th Street in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen area. Surveying the other customers, he sees he’s the only one with an actual paper newspaper. Everyone else has their heads buried in their laptops or are intently studying theirContinue reading “The Bodyguard”
Brimstone
Flash Fiction by Nick Di Carlo Between 1972 and ’74 when he was arrested, Brimley Stone abducted at least thirteen women, painted their faces, dressed them like Raggedy Ann dolls, and strangled them. He was 19. Serving hard time for life—no possibility of parole, Stone obsessed with time, agonizing over how he’d fill a lifetimeContinue reading “Brimstone”
Any Day Now
Flash Fiction by Tamara Shaffer They stroll arm in arm on the darkened, tree-lined street, speaking in hushed tones, laughing sporadically. They’re too absorbed in each other to notice me as I keep pace behind them, slipping silently in and out behind the trunks of the giant elms and remaining just close enough to observe.Continue reading “Any Day Now”