1 She stared at the detail of the concrete work. Reaching out, her fingers lightly touched the surface and found it to be very smooth ...

“The year is nineteen-ninety-nine.” That sentence brings me back to my senior kindergarten class when I was five years old, where we used to read ...

A gunshot went off seemingly from nowhere, but it was from one of the officers at the young girl’s site, me. Mr. Whimpley’s head lay ...

“Goddammit!” Doc wobbles a moment as pain flares up his ankle. Catching himself, he shifts and shakes his right foot, stomping it once and then ...

“Is it true? Did every cop in the precinct call in sick tonight?” I asked my friend who lives across the street from the police ...

A few days ago I got a text message from an unknown number reading “I got your proof.” I stared at the words for a ...

As much as James loved the hunt, the prep work that needed to be done beforehand was always a bit tedious.  He had to find ...

The swine. I watched him put away two portions of Kung Pao chicken, eight dumplings, and six spring rolls, and the bastard still has room ...

A curious case emerged in the fall of two thousand four. A man, aged nineteen, was found dead of an exhaustion-induced heart attack. The man, ...

Garbage lined the quiet street with dirty papers, bottles, and cans. One trash bin tipped on its side with a wretched smell of old beer ...

He stood in front of the huge black Edwardian door awaiting an answer. The frosty morning air crept closer into his bones sending a shiver ...

I was sixteen when I saw the first crack.  A jagged line, almost four feet long but less than an inch wide.  I found it ...