Mystery Fiction by Lyndy Wibking It was 10:07 p.m., and still Jack was nowhere in sight. In her old car in a corner of the fairground’s huge dirt parking lot, Bonnie Honeybone stared out the windshield at the fair’s whirling, blurring, blinking riot of a skyline a hundred yards distant. Against the vast blackness ofContinue reading “Shooting Gallery”
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Lunatic
Crime Fiction Excerpt by Mira Gibson Prologue THE DARKENED SIDEWALK smelled of exhaust fumes and dank trash, which the brutal downpour seemed to magnify, kicking up all kinds of odors. Vehicles rushed down the avenue in both directions, headlights blazing, tires bouncing over potholes and splashing puddles. The swishing sound of never ending traffic inContinue reading “Lunatic”
Checkmate
Crime Fiction by Maurice Givens After eighteen months, Robert White was beginning to feel like his life was returning. He no longer felt dead. After the mess in the city ended, and with time, he had discarded most of the unpleasantness, but he couldn’t erase the image of Sarah’s body on the kitchen floor, lifelessContinue reading “Checkmate”
Ruby, You’re Like A Song
Mystery Fiction by Harry Neil “This ain’t a hearin’ or anything formal like that, but we got two people dead, one of ’em a deputy, and I need to figger out why. I been chief in Tin City for over twenty years, and ain’t nothin’ like this ever happened before. Last real murder we hadContinue reading “Ruby, You’re Like A Song”