The last one brought a baseball bat; it dropped from his fist as he rounded the alley’s corner. Danny Costigan looked back at him, fists stained with blood that was black in the neon glow. At his feet the lad’s two friends lay moaning and bleeding in the rain-swept gutter. Dance music pumped through the [...]
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Coming Through The Dark by Gareth Spark
The car ripped through hogweed and barbed wire, turned on a fallen tree and smashed into the beck. Karl’s head hit the dash. He groaned, his sight flickered, but he was alive. Icy water rushed through the shattered window. ‘Sue?’ He said. She stared up at him; the belt held her tight. ‘We have to [...]
Rundown Dog by Gareth Spark
The man from Govan caught Spick Monroe’s jaw with a left, sent him crashing to the hard mud of the pit dug out in the barn floor; then he was on him, laying punches down on his face with brute percussive force. Spick felt his lip burst and tasted the hot sting of blood pour [...]