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Laughing All the Way to Hell

Laughing All the Way to Hell

by | Dec 24, 2023 | G, Glen Bush, Short Story

Only the weeping of a lone hawk and the metallic groan of an oncoming barge intruded upon Jack Willis’s solace. He felt relief lying against the smooth length of driftwood. To his left, a Great Blue Heron stood staring into a swirling pool of muddy Mississippi water,...
How to Take a Life

How to Take a Life

by | Nov 27, 2023 | P, Paul R. Lloyd, Short Story

What did Sally Loribet plan to do about Randy? He might overreact any evening the roast beef didn’t meet his approval, or he may hatch his plot to murder her without provocation. But a wife couldn’t ask her husband when he intended to kill her, could she?...
The Folkie

The Folkie

by | Nov 13, 2023 | S, Short Story, Steve Cashel

Alone in the locker room at the end of my day-shift, I changed from my supermarket clothes into my gangster ones. +++++Off came the burgundy fleece with the square orange name-tag, the purple shirt, the elasticated trousers and the clunky warehouse boots with the...
The Amateur

The Amateur

by | Oct 30, 2023 | J, John Grice, Short Story

You seldom see a gold Rolls Royce in a military airfield. When I looked across the tarmac from under the wing of the jet, I assumed the vision emerging from the heat haze was some mirage of an overheated brain. +++++It was fifty degrees in the shade that morning....