“Moby Mick” by BV Lawson
Paul steered the deadrise boat around the shoals, keeping his distance from the shallow Chesapeake waters around the barrier island. Wouldn’t do to get stuck in the muck. Not today.
Tag: Murder
“Two Guys Come Through the Door with Guns” by Karen Heuler
Another doorway opens and two more guys come through the door with guns. “What is this?” one guy says.
“This is our room. We’re here to get Ed.” “So are we.”
“Stateline” by Tom Gartner
I’d been in Stateline for four days, trying to find a coke dealer named Daniel Fowler. He was the reason my friend Powell was headed to San Quentin, or so I’d been told.
“Let’s Not Think About It” by Lynne Bronstein
“Let’s not think about it,” was what he kept telling her. She knew he might kill her. She knew too much.
“Norman” by JZ Sims
Norman drove towards his home town of Sycamore, Missouri. It was about sunup on a Sunday. He had been driving for many hours.
“Incident on the 139” by Arthur Evans
Pepper, it’s you and me now. Haven’t we been happy long as we stayed close?
“Home in the Snow, 1971” by William J. Jackson
After a few weeks the VW bug I drove, which I parked at night out by the gravel road a third of a mile from my house in the woods, was burgled.
“Old Bones” by Michael Patrick Brady
The house had been vacant for a long time, the realtor told me, but she wasn’t sure why.