Barbarossa of Seville 4 by Matt Mordecai
Barbarossa of Seville 4 by Matt Mordecai The Mayfield Galleria, fusty jewel of the backwater planetoid Seville 4, was closed for the day. Glancing across the peeling, hair-strewn lino to the doorway of his...
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The Best View in the Bar by J.D. Strange
The Best View in the Bar by J.D. Strange The moon shone down on the city like a spotlight in a darkened theater. Shadows danced and demons lurked in every corner of The Plaza....
Take My Place by Nicholas Woods
Take My Place by Nicholas Woods It was five days before the accident, and Alexander could recall a menacing feeling in his gut that later he deduced as a warning. Whether from his body,...
Ice Coach by James Fitzsimmons
Ice Coach by James Fitzsimmons People gathered at the pound of frozen hooves. Orchard owners anticipated low hanging fruit. Farmers imagined undulating fields. Children awaited ice chips. Inside the Silversnake jail, Constable Hank Jeffords...
Beggars Would Ride by James C. Clar
Editor’s Note: Read the previous adventure of the two Hawaii Police Detectives by clicking the link: “The Way the Cookie Crumbles by James C. Clar” Beggars Would Ride by James C. Clar “Sympathetic Magic...
Warehouse no. 4 by Caroline Taylor
Warehouse no. 4 by Caroline Taylor After all these years, the place still smells of coffee. It’s nearly overwhelmed by the stench of urine, feces, and dead animal, but it’s there. And now I...
Making the Leap by John Sheirer
Making the Leap by John Sheirer “Go away,” Wendy Distoff mumbled as the knock on her door arrived just before three a.m., right around the time she seriously considered dropping out of graduate school...
The Raisin Man by Dann Wonser
The Raisin Man by Dann Wonser I bet you anything my mom is better than yours. You probly don’t believe me, so I’m gonna prove it, and you’re gonna wish your mom was as...
Yours Truly by D.W. Moore
Yours Truly by D.W. Moore It was last April, during the late winter snowstorm, when my sister Agnes called me for the first time in, well, forever. She was frantic, blubbering about a phone...
Bobby Fischer in Valhalla by Gary Ives
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is entirely fictional. While there is use of names of events, people and places commonly known to many, this work of fiction is entirely from the imagination of the author....
