Category: crime
Trust Me by Dan LeichtA Charles Splints Case Halfway through ironing a white shirt using the bottom…
Before It Gets Cold by Dan LeichtA Charles Splints Case I woke up at noon. The sun…
Night Lights in Prison by Grant Tracey Broken limbs of trees darkened the way as I drove…
A Little White Lie by James C. Clar Honolulu, August 18, 1945 The early morning rain was…
Mid-morning, Ramon was at his desk when he heard Sylvia call Tish on the intercom and say…
Bad Decisions by Dale Patrick Smrekar 4 a.m. “How’d you like to make fifteen hundred dollars?” The…
The Funeral Pyre by Bret Jones “What am I looking at?” “You tell me. That’s why I…
Going For The Kid by Samuel C. Hasler Charleston Blau strolled into The Potter’s Field like a…
Once Removed by Bill Tope Ellison replaced the receiver of the ancient, 40-year-old land line with a…
Namrata’s Secrets by Rathin Bhattacharjee “I told him that my marriage was fixed and that I wasn’t…
Big Purple Boxes by Caroline Smith Picture a self-storage company called Big Purple Boxes, situated just off…
Early Justice by Kevin Van Den Berg My name is Ross Ferguson. Today I have volunteered to…
The Last Good Place by Fred DeVecca I wasn’t supposed to be there. No one was supposed…
Leave Only Footprints by Kyle Arivett-White I’d stalked this house for a long time. Hunted it like…
Ghosts by James C. Clar Honolulu, 1947 I liked Honolulu best after it rained. The palms dripped…
The Rat Who Cried Wolf by Jon Wesick “My next guest served as a mob soldier for…
Lost And Found…And Lost by Joe Kilgore (Miami 1973) His hair was long. Well, what there was…
The Witness Plant by G. Taylor Snow The knife flashed. Again and again. The body slipped quietly to the…
Another Night, Another Dog by Itto and Mekiya Outini On the steps of the police station, a…
The Last Word by James C. Clar Honolulu, August 1948. The war was over and things had…
A Train Ride to Queens by June Wolfman Edith Hoffman tugged the lapels of her grey worsted…
Pablo and Petra by Tom Kropp Pablo felt suicidal. That was nothing new. He was 17 and…
Sic by Bill Tope “You don’t understand, Dr. Retzer,” said Jodi with some urgency, “just how important…
Confidential Informant by Tom Kropp Crackhouses exist all over Milwaukee and good crack becomes almost instantly addictive…
The Reckoning by Mickayla Jones A gust of frigid wind slaps Sam’s face and she winces in…