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”
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The Closest Thing To Being God
Flash Fiction by Conor O’Brian Barnes “The misery of life is the greatest consolation for death,” the shooter said. “It would be bad to die if it were good to be alive, but since it’s bad to be alive, it’s good to die.” “If that’s how you feel about this shit-show of a world,” DetectiveContinue reading “The Closest Thing To Being God”
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 Eye Exam
Flash Fiction by Melissa R. Mendelson I hate the blue light. “Will you please sit still?” The doctor asked. She tried not to smile at the anger in his voice. “Just relax.” The doctor leaned forward, moving the blue light up to her eye, brushing against her eyelash. She jerked her head back. “Echo!” SheContinue reading “The Eye Exam”
Suicide Squeeze: Colton Lacombe’s Return to Baseball.
Crime Fiction By Jason P. Reed Stepping into the batter’s box at Bengal park had a way of transporting Colton Lacomb to Little League in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he first made a name for himself. Never mind that he was a 21 year old freshman. And never mind that the pitchers he faced clockedContinue reading “Suicide Squeeze: Colton Lacombe’s Return to Baseball.”
Cowardice
Flash Fiction by Tom Miller Finn wasn’t a coward, no, he was just a child. Thirteen, naive, impressionable. He thought he’d lost his innocence earlier that year when he drank his first beer and got his pecker touched for the first time. But, he actually lost it when he rifled through his sister, Brigid’s, diaryContinue reading “Cowardice”
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”