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All That Remains

All That Remains

by | Mar 28, 2018 | M, Mick Rose, Short Story

Took me three years to track down John Delaney. Snot dribbled from his nose. But those soulless blue eyes still sparkled with defiance. +++++I’d jacked him head-long over a battered wooden table—and splayed him spread-eagle. Like a cop shoves a hapless perp...
Lake Effect

Lake Effect

by | Mar 27, 2018 | P, P. K. Augustyn, Short Story

When Earl turned onto the dirt road, the snow was coming down at a good clip and slamming into the windshield. As we got closer to the lake, the winds were picking up. The headlights caught the leafless scrubs struggling to hold onto the hard soil that rooted them....
Life Number Ten

Life Number Ten

by | Mar 22, 2018 | J, James Shaffer, Short Story

Harlan stood at the kitchen sink, staring out the window, looking at nothing in particular. Cocking his head from side to side, he pretended to look at something. He’d seen a guy do it like that in the movies. But outside there were only dark pine trees, big...
Lawyers in The Basement

Lawyers in The Basement

by | Mar 20, 2018 | R, Roy Dorman, Short Story

It had been two weeks since Marcie McGinley’s husband, Ted, had stormed out of their ranch-style house in the suburbs. +++++Now he wanted to meet with her “before the lawyers got involved” and talk about things “in an amicable way.” +++++They had been married for...
Debt Relief

Debt Relief

by | Mar 16, 2018 | D, Darin Z. Krogh, Short Story

Jack Alden delivered meals to the homebound. His charity service was a cover. He volunteered because Reggie Hatch’s elderly parent’s received Meals On Wheels each weekday. +++++Reggie’s parents lived in a run-down ranch house at the end of a dirt...