Crime Time

_The room was cold. It tasted like blue on the tip of Fran’s tongue. Blue splayed out in delicate tendrils to cover her face. In another time, the blue would’ve made her shiver; now Fran welcom…

Rainwater ran along the asphalt turf of Seventy-Second and Amsterdam. He answered when I called, exactly at midnight. I knew precisely where he was standing: crouched over the phone, fro…

Well of course she was unrecognizable, but he said he rented it to a Miss Delia Barnes….

The coroner called it death by misadventure …. the time of death was set between 7.30 and 8.a.m

...then the warmth took even that away as we listened to that old radio sitting in the candle light taking in the warmth of a hot bath…

I had finally come home…

Mary knew that what she was about to do signified a dramatic change in her life. Closing her eyes, Mary felt a single tear squeeze through. The silver pearl clung to her lashes briefly – just…

Our future lives in the shadows
lead me away from the light
I don’t want to see it
I’m prepared
this vanity, this darkness, this light
is a dangerous life
more over, I’m losing you
I can…

When I finally left the bar (assisted) it was much too dark, foggy and raining and I was much too drunk to care whether I was being followed or not.

"Stop screaming!" Carl said. "You’re giving me a headache!"
He cupped his hands over his ears and began to pace a figure eight around the poorly lit room. After five laps or so, he drop…

25/02/2009
UNKNOWN LOCATION
CENTRAL ASIA
10:45 am

The foxhole in which Keiko hided was the R.V. Point in which they had to wait for 24 hours.
Before digging in she layed 4 Claymore mine…

The Hired Hand couldn’t care less about the strategic or the financial angle of the whole deal.

CROSSWORDS AND CROSSHAIRS

MILAN
24/02/2009
CENTRAL POLICE STATION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON

It was a cold and rainy afternoon.
D.S.I. Touré walked the entrance of the police station.
He salu…

My favorite people here are many. We are a collective of creative, caring, inspired, tired, lonely, alive, frustrated, emotional, artistic, very cool souls.

THE MISTRESS
Part 2

Mario Zanotto, the president of the FABBRICA RICAMBI MILANO, was worried.
Her daughter in law, which was also the C.E.O. of his business, wasn’t in her office.
She ha…