Active Service
A scorpion flicking its stinger inside his anus, his face bloated and red, Kurt grunted on the bowl. His wife Maggie shrieked in the cell, demanding…
The Night Swallows the Heart, Part 1
I. The Wolf stalked among the trees and overgrowth along the hillside. Schenley Park isn’t the normal home of large carnivora. Nor has Western…
Dark and Lonely Water
I pulled up on my Raleigh Lizard mountain bike at Marston Bridge and propped it up against the railings. Rubbing my cold hands, I turned to face…
Bitch Pad: One
I remember fear and temptation. The laundry room had been installed on the eighth floor, the halfway point between ground level and roof off which a…
Night Sounds
We have arrived at our rental home in the Finger Lakes in upper New York state. It was many hours in a cramped airplane, and almost as many hours in…
Acceptable Risk
Roger was scheduled for a medical evaluation on Planet X29, a planet specifically created and run by the medical industry. Roger’s flight was…
What Ever Happened to Harriet Grieves?
Now that ten-year-old Harriet Grieves had the VCR, she no longer had to stay up late to watch her favorite Bette Davis films; she could tape them and…
Dirty John
It was early afternoon and I had nothing in particular to do. In those days, I never did have anything in particular to do. Write a bit here and…
Mastodon
She was stopped at a red light on 5th and Broadway, fiddling with her broken AC, when she saw it from her car window. Something gargantuan was…
Valentine’s Day
Like centipedes scurrying across his shoulders and tapping along his spine, the 28 soft leather lashes, each 20 inches long, at first tickled. Terry…
