Hallows Eve 1790. Molly Addams was fleeing for her life. She was running through the gnarled trees of the forbidden Sleepy Hollow forest, carrying a pumpkin lantern to guide her way through this doomed venture. This town whore was being hunted by the demo...
Seattle, August 12, 2037 “Hey! My salmon!” The paper-wrapped package of fresh fish whizzed past me, splatting on the floor and sliding under one of the vendor tables. I'd heard someone yell my name, "Joe!" and turned to walk into the porky arms of two big...
When I arrived back at my hotel, my diminishing enthusiasm for Jamaican nightlife lifted when I found the bar open. I heard music coming from the space at the back of the lounge; a late-night group of chics were shaping the dancefloor with a splattering o...
It’s the day after my fortieth birthday and I’m struggling to put one foot in front of the other; after downing two bottles of JD last night, I don’t know why I’m surprised. Not that I’d been out celebrating you understand, it was more a self-piteous bacc...
The cell phone displays an encrypted message. He uses an application and converts the message. Someone at the agency informing him about a possible security breach. The Chinese already know about his presence in Shandong. But that was the least of his pro...
I was walking home from the Tender Trap. I’d had hopes that Benny would take me home but she had other plans. I had no idea what those plans were but it clearly wasn’t a quiet night in. She’d arrived at the pub in knife-creased, airforce blue trousers wit...
As I climbed over the railing, he caught on to my intentions. Carolyn ... wait ... what are you doing? You cannot swim! "I can't spend the rest of my life like this, Percy." Gathering all the courage within me, I decided to face Death and peered down at t...
That fateful night, the boldest and fearless of her soon-to-be ex-colleagues had seen her off, with a discreet gathering at a local watering hole, a known hang-out to the force. There, at ''Our Boys in Blue'', a dimly lit, seemingly seedy dive bar, neatly...
He took a sip of water and pressed on with the questioning. “So, Cristal, what is your earliest memory of a bad experience?” She wasn’t entirely sure why she needed these interviews, or even why she was being put forward for promotion. Sure, she could pro...
Well, fuck…that was damn nice, I remember saying to myself! I love beginning my Saturday’s with a good masturbatory session, I have needs and that morning my need registered a huge ten on the pussy Richter scale. I had just the right toy at hand to delive...
Parked under a buzzing, stroked out streetlamp, I looked down the street. People moved slowly in the night, shadows slinking among shadows. The occasional cars’ headlights made them scuttle like roaches. Home. My limbs were heavy, the darkness insid...
While driving north on Route One, we were stuck in bumper to bumper traffic around LA. The so-called expressway was slow and crowded with cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses. Horns honked and exhaust rose from cars that moved a few feet and then would not...
We didn't speak in the police car. When we arrived back at the trailer, the awkward, tense silence between us continued. I grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator and wished it was a beer, but gulped it down, relieved that the charges had been dro...
I’d spent the entire funeral avoiding her and now her incestual hands were around my mother. Standing with a plate of baked-from-scratch cinnamon rolls, Kara rubbed my mom’s back as she cried. The picture of poise, her blonde hair hung in a loose waves f...
As I drove along Route 66 past various stores, restaurants, and billboards, we were both quiet, lost in our thoughts. I knew Avalon was about forty miles from the Black Mountains and that we'd soon be there. Carla held my map on her lap while we drove pas...
