The Fool Stepping off the gravel path onto the grass, I stop to let my eyes take in the trees draped in vines all around ...
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Chapter 1 “Hey, Donovan!” Colin yelled as he walked into his corner office with his hand held out for a shake. “My man! I cannot ...
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Shorty Small, a man neither short nor small, sat in the far corner of the coffee shop, his back to a wall. He was, for ...
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1 “Dump the fuckin’ tiles out on the table, boy.” Billy John Cader said gruffly to his son of only fourteen years old who sat ...
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1 Olive woke up suddenly from her usual restless sleep. At nearly 65, she was now accustomed to never sleeping very soundly. After all, she ...
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Sebastian’s hand adjusted on the gun. His palms were sweating. A year ago he wouldn’t have even imagined things like this were real. A year ...
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Part One: The Wallachian Csejte Castle, Hungary, 25 May 1605 Blood dripped from the Wallachian’s blade like macabre gemstones of garnet and ruby shimmering in ...
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Early Monday Morning The creature paused. Sensing her prey’s agony, even from afar, brought her satisfaction. She had become the embodiment of obsession, and she ...
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Eight months ago, my life changed forever. I couldn’t tell you what the weather was like that day, what I had for breakfast, or even ...
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This whole thing started with a Rubik’s Cube.  Once I learned the algorithm and figured it out, I was able to solve it in record ...
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“Donnie, when are we gonna stop?  I’m tired, and I need to pee.”  Shannon and Donnie, her sometimes boyfriend, had been driving for hours.  They’d ...
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Ryan and Nicole Sullivan parked their SUV in front of the badly weathered Victorian house. They had purchased the old home sight unseen at a ...
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