Emily, Martha and the other three from the boost crew got out of van for the fourth time this morning. They were at a CVS parking lot. Martha looked at her sister, “All I said was I wanted to join… Continue Reading
Alb and I always call in for a pint after work on a Friday, our ritual to celebrate another week’s work. I mean nobody likes a dead end job in insurance sales but times are hard and money’s tight. I… Continue Reading
“Ed Lowercase? Private detective? There’s something you can do for me…” When I first heard that honey-trap voice, I could have said I was busy. However, as the voice came from a tall blonde in a low-cut tight dress leaning… Continue Reading
My associate Jake would not have called himself an evil man. He just didn’t like to lose. It was unfortunate that our other companions had died in the cave-in, and that we’d found the gold mine just before then, and… Continue Reading
Marcus leaned back against the BMW’s door and exhaled smoke into the night sky. His jacket lay inside on the passenger seat and the sleeves of his white dress shirt were rolled up in the heat, but his tie was… Continue Reading
I remember the day I moved in across the street from Jack Mounds. The moving men had just started loading their dollies and blankets back into the now-cavernous truck when some of my new neighbors came over bearing baskets. Mrs.… Continue Reading
“You don’t talk much,” the guy wearing a blue shirt said. He looked like an ordinary Joe having a conversation except that he and his partner, the other bookend, were cops charging me with murder. “Duh,” I said. “I’m a… Continue Reading
I hated Christmas. “The elf did it,” Rudolph said before he spat a glob of tobacco juice into one of Mall of America’s promenade trashcans. Dark brown liquid splattered his faux fur. The combined scent of Red Man and dark… Continue Reading
Their 4:30 appointment thumbs its figurative nose at Trevor Urqhart from the computer screen, blowing metaphorical raspberries. He double-checks the date and sighs. Is this the best they can do on their final opportunity to insult him? Allegedly it is… Continue Reading
The light snow did not faze the sniper, who easily picked off the man who had just left the coffee shop a few hundred yards down the street. He saw the head snap back and the body fall over an… Continue Reading