The Clean Up
The Clean Up
The Ford Escape flashed through a red traffic light, slipped around a small woman driving a small…
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Cotton Candy Carnival
Cotton Candy Carnival
Big circus tents. A massive, festive, restless crowd moving in a multitude of currents…
Explanations
Explanations
She glanced at her watch and frowned before looking up and staring out the glass of the driver’s…
Maurice (10 & 11)
Their only hope is for some supernatural force to come along and save them
Maurice (9)
The only way she is going to get out of this trouble is to rely on her fast reflexes
Maurice (6 & 7)
The time has come to hunt for Tammy's killer. To hunt both in the world of the living and the dead
Maurice (5)
Maurice, the smiling Buddha-like attorney who speaks to the dead, wins in the courtroom and has his client released…
Maurice (3+4)
Maurice, the Buddha-like eccentric lawyer who specializes in representing ghosts, is in the middle of a…
Maurice (2)
The next morning, when the sartorial splendor of Maurice stepped off the elevator on the sixth floor of the…
Maurice (1)
With a flick of the thumb he opened the old Zippo lighter and thumbed it into life
A Dish Served Cold 12 and 13
A Dish Served Cold 12 and 13
Twelve
Kirkland Barrows was apoplectic. Enraged. Filled with a mindless fury he…
A Dish Served Cold 10 and 11
A Dish Served Cold 10 and 11
Ten
In the night he watched.
Black eyes—black eyes of a bottomless pit—as…
A Dish Served Cold 6 and 7
A Dish Served Cold 6 and 7
Six
Sitting in the darkness of the cab he sat behind a long line of cabs in front of…
A Dish Served Cold 4 and 5
A Dish Served Cold 4 and 5
Four
“How the hell did my phone wind up in that parking lot? Huh? Tell me, dammit!…
A Dish Served Cold 2 and 3
A Dish Served Cold 2 and 3
Two
Heavy rain hammered the cement with a dull, relentless assault on the senses.…
Payment in Full
The ten million was payment. Payment in full for slipping classified documents out of Washington and into the…
A Dish Served Cold 1
A Dish Served Cold 1
Here's the opening chapter of A Dish Served Cold. The title is the first of a two-novella…
Competent Hands
“Listen, that sonofabitch killed my father. So I want you to kill him.”
“You think Ellery killed your…
There Are No Heroes
She sat across from him in the booth. Sat holding the cup of coffee in front of her with bent and twisted fingers…
There is No Johnny–Just Call Me Smitty
There is no Johnny, Darlene. Not any more. From now on just call me Smitty. But Darlene, a word of warning. Run…
Kneel
"Kneel and look at the floor."
In the shadows of the apartment behind her the voice was only a…
Proof
“. . . Look, I’m telling you exactly what I think. Your boy is guilty. Guilty as sin and he’s going to the…
In About Fifty Years
In About Fifty Years
Dark eyes surveyed the room, a deadly little smile spilling out of his lips in the process.…
The Champion
The Champion
Sun glitters, a breath of Hell plays solemn songs of the
Devilish across scorched sands.…
Roland of the High Crags 6
Roland of the High Crags 6
Beware of Evil in all its disguises.
For it does not always come with a sword in…
The Curious Mr. Klaus
The holidays. The constant blare of Christmas carols. The hordes of people moving like gigantic herds of cattle…
Roland of the High Crags 5
Roland of the High Crags 5
One act of mercy lifts from the heart three acts of regret, child.
If you believe.
If…
Roland of the High Crags 4
Roland of the High Crags 4
If Evil has no pity and shows no mercy,
Then you, the believer,
should be…
Roland of the High Crags 3
Roland of the High Crags 3
The True Wizard must enter this terrible Realm called The Netherworld. He must…
Roland Of The High Crags 2
Roland Of The High Crags 2
Innocence may mask the face of Evil. Only the True Heart Will be able to love the one…
Roland of the High Crags: Evil Arises
Roland of the High Crags: Evil Arises
The devout know a terrible truth. Evil cannot be destroyed.
The death…
Hot Torrential Rain
Hot Torrential Rain
Rain. Torrential rain. A warm rain. Almost hot to the touch.
A rain like only a…
Agent Beano
Agent Beano
Not good - Not good at all.
Actually, it was a hell of a mess. A mess he’d have to do some fast…
In Your Old Blue Eyes
Old Blue Eyes
In your old blue eyes
I am still the smiling boy
with mischief dimples
We hold hands and…
Flowers Bloom
Flowers Bloom
Flowers bloom in a
riot of outrageous colors-
hot the summer’s breeze.
Life moves with a…
A Day Off
A Day Off
A day off. Yeah, right. Like a cop deserves one.
So it was a Sunday. An early Sunday morning. Not a…
Ffolkes Accused
Ffolkes Accused
There they stood. Six of them. The Scrooge of the High Seas. The terrors of the Caribbean! Six…
Midnight Rambler
Midnight Rambler
The night began with the Rolling Stones
I’m talking about the midnight rambler... And everybody…
Tell’Em Smitty Said So
Smitty Said So
The park was filled with the riotous joy of Fall’s bright colors. The morning sun, bright and…
Call me Smitty
Call me Smitty
The car slid to a stop on the carpet of heavy gravel just outside the old railroad tracks five…
Jimmy is Dead
Jimmy is Dead
In the back of the dimly lit pool hall, the jukebox was playing loudly. Very loudly. Playing to an…
Complete Dirt
Complete Dirt
A complete Turner Hahn/Frank Morales short story. These two detectives are featured in my…
Rowina’s Lover
Rowina's Lover
The moon, its bottom rim just touching the dark silhouette of a barren hill, was a gigantic…