The headcount is seven. A serial killer is working the strip-clubs of lower Manhattan. But that’s Detective Tomasina Vencenzi’s beat... and Tommy doesn’t like it when someone messes with her girls.
Sometimes you believe and sometimes you don't. I have a friend, Nathaniel, who has changed my mind about many things. Hospital Island taught him a very serious fact. Don't trust a Red Coat! It's nice to have a friend help with writing stories too and he helps me in more ways than you can imagine.
INCLUDES ILLUSTRATION- Jill’s eighteenth should have been a carefree transition into maturity. Not one marred by the pain and humiliation of being robbed of her virginity when her sorority birthday party is invaded by armed men in search of ransom money and party-favors. Detective Tomasina Vencenzi has lived through that same humiliation and vows to get the girls back, even if it means placing what’s left of her own torn virtue on the line in a desperate rescue attempt.
"She felt an arm seize her... Alison knew she was going to die, choked to death as he raped her." It's 1978 and Alison wants to travel, finding good and bad in the world.
A Halloween 2023 Contest Entry
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations, but when a death-oath is given, it's to be taken seriously. There's only so much you can do to spit in the eyes of Karma before it comes to collect it's due. Life is a 'wandering to find home'… but for some people, after death the obligations can become even heavier still.
My wife and I got along fine until the kids left the next. After that she seemed to be sad until she met some new friends and began going out with the girls. Here's how it all turned out.