Crime Fiction by Jo Ayker Kelly and I caught the missing person case on Monday night and spent the next two days investigating. Then we went to visit Helen Thompson in her suburban home. Helen had dinner with her husband Michael on Sunday evening. She got up and went to work the next morning withoutContinue reading “Give No Quarter”
Category Archives: Flash Fiction
The Hostage
Flash Fiction by Charles Stott Janie was bundled roughly into the back of the car and thrown to the floor, the next thing she knew was that the car was speeding off down the street away from the bank. She heard thuds as bullets hit the trunk and back of the car, the rear windowContinue reading “The Hostage”
Closing Time
Flash Fiction by Nicholas Efstathiou The pistol coughed in Danny’s hand. The suppressor, cheap as it was, did the job. Mike Mullens stood behind his bar, a small black hole in the left breast of his white button-down. Blood leaked out and Mike blinked several times, a confused expression on his face. “Sorry, Mike,” DannyContinue reading “Closing Time”
Bleach
Flash Fiction by Jason M. Tucker I’m not a criminal. Well, maybe a little if you judge me by the literal definition of one. Or when you look at some twisted things I’ve done. It’s not that I’m sick. The world’s sick. And I need to visit violence on people before I can sleep. CleanContinue reading “Bleach”
Most Likely To Succeed
Flash Fiction by Boyd Blackwood An avid insomniac Internet fact-hunter, he learned how two Dutch security geniuses hacked a way to open S•••••-brand RFID-based keycard locks covertly. The S••••• system is used in three million doors in 13,000 properties in 131 countries. Including this mid-range mid-western Ramada where now, six floors below him in theContinue reading “Most Likely To Succeed”
Clear
Dystopian Fiction By Chris Bunton Sarah and her friends exited the city bus, and walked the short half block along the clean streets to the Metro Station. The young girls were dressed to the nines and were excited to get to the concert. They laughed, chatted, giggled and checked their phones, taking selfies. It wasContinue reading “Clear”
The Sun Never Sleeps
Flash Fiction by Michael Tyler Paul and I were like brothers. Better than brothers, we were like twins. People would say we’d been separated at birth, that’s how close Paul and I were. Every school day we’d laugh and scowl together, every evening we’d terrorize the neighborhood, every summer we’d head down to the beachContinue reading “The Sun Never Sleeps”
Father’s Day
Flash Fiction by Scott Macleod Del could feel the old voice coursing around his brain like poison, but he felt he had something important to say so he tried to keep it together. Well missy look at you I suppose you’re one of them schoolboy smarty pants. “You see that guy?” said Del to hisContinue reading “Father’s Day”
The Robinsons
Flash Fiction By Gratia Serpento The Robinsons were good and kind people who never had anything terribly terrible happen to them. Aside from the disappearance of their thirteen-year-old daughter, which had happened over seven years ago, nothing ever happened to them. They lived their suburban lives, with Mr. Robinson as a veterinarian and Mrs. RobinsonContinue reading “The Robinsons”
21st Century Gangster
Crime Fiction by Jack Bristow “What were the rules of your business, Mr. DaVinci,” the Millennial YouTube host asked me, a benign smile permeating his face, a gleam in his turquoise-marble eyes. I thought about the question long and hard. Rules: We lived by them, we died by them. In La Costa Nostra there usedContinue reading “21st Century Gangster”