Reptile Lust, Part 4
I hung up and went into the each of the kids’ rooms. They were sleeping soundly and I didn't want to wake them. I left a note on the kitchen table…
Reptile Lust, Part 3
I looked out the window at the passing neighborhood of big homes and big yards where Sally's grandparents lived and wondered if Jack was out there.…
Reptile Lust, Part 2
Well, talk about the shit hitting the fan. My adrenaline kicked in, roaring through my body like a tidal wave and my mind went into overdrive with…
Reptile Lust, Part 1
My ex, Freddie, is, and probably always will be, the biggest idiot I've ever known. I mean the guy took our two-year-old son for a ride on a…
Why I Don’t Run Away Anymore, Part 4
It was many minutes later I realized I still had the knife gripped in my hand. I rolled to my back and floated, closed it, and managed to stuff it in…
Why I Don’t Run Away Anymore, Part 3
The next thing I knew, I was waking up. Well, coming to was more like it. I was lying completely stretched out across the front seat of some sort of…
Why I Don’t Run Away Anymore, Part 2
I snuck out of my room, down the hall, through the kitchen, and out of the house. I ran to the garage and jumped on my bike and rode it through our…
Why I Don’t Run Away Anymore, Part 1
The first time I was five years old. It was right after my sister was born and I guess I was feeling sorry for myself, what with the attention my…
Storm Clouds
A small group of Minnesota's criminally insane are housed in a gray, nondescript building on the outskirts of the town of Epps in the northwestern…
Bathtub Gin
Big Ben Barker ran the bootleg arm of Mickey Finn's operation on the south side. He ran it like clockwork and with precision. Mickey called him Ben.…
