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”
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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”
Book Release: Judicial Misconceptions Shattered
True Crime By Matthew Harrison “Unlocking the Truth: Judicial Misconceptions Shattered Embark on a journey of revelation and reform as Matthew Harrison exposes hidden realities within the corridors of justice. Drawing inspiration from hard-hitting journalism like reports from Peter Wagner, Executive Director of Prison Policy Initiative, this groundbreaking work unveils shocking truths about jails andContinue reading “Book Release: Judicial Misconceptions Shattered”
A Fast Weekend
Crime Fiction By William D. Higgs III Some people called me a “private detective,” but I thought of myself as a fixer. People came to me with problems, and I fixed them. Someone thought their husband was screwing around, so I’d follow the bastard, take a few pictures of him going into a seedy motel,Continue reading “A Fast Weekend”
Real Nice Party
Crime Fiction By Isabella DePhillipo I didn’t want to go to the party Dickey Henderson threw on the day he killed his parents, but really when I think back on it I never had a choice. It was right around the time we all really started to feel the noose of the future tightening, andContinue reading “Real Nice Party”
True Crime: In Loving Memory of Sherry Lewis
True Crime By Dennette Bender (Russell) It was not a typical Friday in 1994. It was the first day of the annual Decatur Celebration, a day many in central Illinois looked forward to. It was the marking of another great midwestern summer. Local corn harvesting, farming, and vacations were coming to an end. Children wereContinue reading “True Crime: In Loving Memory of Sherry Lewis”
Dead Giveaway
Flash Fiction by William Kitcher As soon as she sat beside me at the bar, I was skeptical. Too calculatedly down-market. I definitely liked the look of her: unusually beautiful face, very high cheekbones, a slight overbite that caused her smile to be intriguing and confusing, a vague scar that meandered from the side ofContinue reading “Dead Giveaway”
As The Sun Sets
Flash Fiction By Andy Betz “He is unconscious. You weren’t supposed to hit him that hard. We needed him awake!” I had no intention of knocking out Felix, but I was not going to look at that conniving smirk for one more second without him paying for his deeds. The television sets in this motelContinue reading “As The Sun Sets”
Fossil
Flash Fiction By Steve Saulsbury They noticed the older man at the beach where people went looking for fossils. He was fiddling with his pack on a picnic table. Shane sprawled in the sand, puffing a crumpled cigarette. Lacey splashed along the shoreline. “Find any fossils?” Shane asked the man. “No. Just enjoying the scenery.”Continue reading “Fossil”
A New Line To The Outside
Crime Fiction by David Hagerty Prisons evolve as slow as alligators and are about equally pliable. Some dudes I knew had spent decades locked up at San Felipe State, and in all that time they hadn’t seen the paint color change. We marked time on calendars, not digital clocks. The library still relied on aContinue reading “A New Line To The Outside”