"She's the serpent in a green dress."
I've got to get rid of her,' Rick's thoughts were elsewhere, desperately trying to stay ahead of the game. He knew, though, it was coming."Listen to me Marylou, you ain't nothin' to me. You were nothin’ more than just another job....
"A corrupt cop commits a final act for the whore he loves."
Lina and liquor. They keep me alive during the Berlin winter. The long nights, gray days, and freezing rain make me want to drown myself in the Spree River. The urge goes away after four Moscow Mules and a rough...
"“My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.” Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well."
The whirring fan was a triumph of optimism over effectiveness, not a skerrick of breeze cut through the treacly mugginess shrouding my skin. That humidity, redolent of molasses, mango, and frangipani, continually asked: Always the outsider in this fugging hell...
"Is this Nina's last shot at happiness? Or the start of her downward spiral?"
Shooting a man ain't like in the movies. Sure, the mechanical part's a cinch: cock, point, bang, done. But they don't show the emotional cost of taking a life. The endless replays. The blast. The recoil jolting me from wrist...
"A dame shows up from my past, and she brings trouble with her."
The Place: New York City, Hell’s KitchenThe Time: 1941, AugustWorld Events: Europe is under the thumb of the Nazis, Japan is running roughshod over China and the Far East. The USA is ostensibly neutral, but It’s only a matter of...
"Beautiful, elegant Liz walks into the wrong kind of dyke Bar. Fortunately Dani is ready to help."
She was a looker all right--fine coat, double-breasted button-down pink blouse with black trim and with a knee-length skirt that hugged her bottom-- and it was a bottom that deserved to be caressed. Long dark hair, fair skin, green eyes...
"My name's Beattie and this is my friend Robyn," I lied, to the yesterday man in the crumpled suit.My fingers stroked his crotch, as his car skated the wet streets like a speedboat. Parked by the river, I bent to suck...
"A wayward teenager absconds from home to meet a man old enough to be her father"
We headed out for dinner after he’d pissed on me. I swallowed most of it, the rest he did over my face and into my hair, which had lacquered on the walk downtown and now hung over my eyes in...
"Police Detective Mia Baker is quietly hushed and transferred away from her beloved District 8."
That fateful night, the boldest and fearless of her soon-to-be ex-colleagues had seen her off, with a discreet gathering at a local watering hole, a known hang-out to the force. There, at ''Our Boys in Blue'', a dimly lit, seemingly...
Cold bit Arianna’s face as she squinted against the sun. Gloved hands shoved into the front pockets of her puffy coat, she looked for a form in the mountains. A dot on the snow skirts, something moving in the shadowy...
