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Pimp by Stefan Sofiski

Pimp by Stefan Sofiski Moses bursts into the room, pushing two of his whores out the way. The air is sticky… sweat and sex. Several girls from other bedrooms have left their clients and...

Soft Boy by T.J. Staneart

Soft Boy by T.J. Staneart           “They used to make bomb parts here,” Detective Shultz said with his back to the dead body. “You know, the little fins on the back, the rudders? Made...

Murder On The Playground by Marc Egnal

Murder On The Playground by Marc Egnal           Marit Nilson felt she had led a charmed life. She had competed for Norway in the 2008 Olympics, sailing a Laser Radial, a one-person craft, winning...

Glengarry Glen Cookie by Jon Wesick

Glengarry Glen Cookie by Jon Wesick “Enriched flour, sugar, flour, vegetable oil shortening (palm kernel and palm oils), cocoa, caramel color, high fructose corn syrup… Who would eat this crap?” After reading the ingredients,...

Tramps by Bill Tope

Tramps by Bill Tope Prologue The old man sat alone on a green-painted bench which sat beside the tracks, some 100 yards from the train depot. He shifted the heavy metal shape inside his...

Secret By R. C. Capasso

Secret By R. C. Capasso It wasn’t even a secret, really. Just a mistake. The neighbor Peg thought she’d seen Sandra leaving at 2:00, waving back toward the house and driving down the street....