Michael
If I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes, I'd have never believed it. Michelle told me how dangerous he was, and I wouldn't accept a word of it. I…
Collateral Damages
In the aftermath of frenzied texting: if he didn’t have a wife who had survived breast cancer, if they didn’t have children, if it wasn’t the High…
The Experimental Buttsex Theater
We were supposed to see Rectal Warlord and Menstrosity play tonight at O’Cayz, but it’s not an all-ages, it’s for some inexplicable reason…
Executions
Bleak and dreary, a midwinter morning, everything gone over and grey, dead, lost to the cold. A couple shovels snow outside of their house. “Hey,”…
Stink Blanket (Iggy Boogie)
I could feel the belch growing in me all morning. I don’t know why I didn’t just go outside and let ‘er rip---a thick, cloudy emanation seeping into…
The Shadow Men, Part 1 — Excerpt 4
The telephone line was scratchy. “Hello? This is the New York Yankee Sports Bar.” “This is the Babe. I’ve got a few last-minute bets for the…
Citizen
His name was Citizen. His parents had named him in some hippie haze, he presumed. He had never known them well enough to ask them. He wouldn’t change…
“Dial ‘M’ for Malfeasance” and “Sleazebag in the City”
Introduction The following two stories are from The One-Minute Mysteries of Inspector Gerard: The Ultimate Flatfoot, available in paperback and…
Brotherly Love, Part 3
It was two weeks since I last saw Deepak and I am with him for another session. I did as he asked and wrote down all the dreams I had of my brother.…
Steak Knives of Heaven
"And let us not grow weary of doing good..." --- Galatians 6:9 7:30 in the morning, heading for work, you’re not even all the way out the door, and…
