"A Halloween prankster makes a bad choice for his target"
"What do you have against the old widow anyway?"The gang was at happy hour across from the college campus, and Chuck had just announced his intention to toss eggs and stink bombs at the home of the local psychic. The...
"Never judge a book by its cover."
Sitting at an antique mahogany table alongside my three loathsome cousins I felt an immense sadness. My uncle, Darcy had passed away, and we were here at the request of his attorney to listen to the provisions of his last...
"Gremlins. The little fuckers can be a problem, but..."
Diane walked into the front room of her apartment, blinking the sleep out of her eyes and smoothing her fingers through her blonde locks. After three weeks of a hard push at work, she finally had a long weekend as...
"A librarian's exploration of an artist's last manuscript leads to unexpected results."
I locked the library door and turned off all but the security lights. The rest of the library’s staff had gone home and the library itself would be closed until Monday. That left me alone with the building all to...
"A lonely man in a small town gets a visit from an out of town visitor"
Adrian Grody sat watching the night sky in his patrol car. He was a few minutes away from ending his shift. Adrian hated his job as a security guard at the mall, but someone had to do it. He took...
"A strip club owner needs Jessie's help dealing with a sexy problem taking over his business"
“So ya gonna take the job or not?”Jessie looked coolly at the man sitting across from her. She didn’t like him. Not his silk shirt, not his slicked back hair, not his fake tan. Gino the strip club owner. He...
"Is she real, or just another personality? With the insanity of lust and love, does it matter?"
She gasped and then went limp, melting into the bed. It took me far too long to decide something was wrong. As I slowed to a stop, she took a shuddering breath, and her eyes popped open.There was surprise and...
"The insanity of lust and love continues as a visitor tells her story."
After dinner, I tried to watch TV, but I couldn't concentrate on the show. I tried to check my work email, but the words didn't seem to matter much. Money was tight, so I mixed myself a weak whiskey and...
"Just how crazy do you have to be to believe in lust and love?"
I'd like to think that I own a reliable car. Sure, it's more than ten years old, and it does have more than one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it, but it always starts and it doesn't burn oil....
