Crime Stories

Part of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
RichardGerald and I wrote this jointly for Bebop and Nora's "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" event. Since one of those options is a bus, we modeled our story on the classic Hollywood 'meet cute' film "It Happened One Night." Which means that we changed the characters, swapped the sexes, radically altered the plot, and wrote a whole new story. But we DID think about the film while we were trashing it. So as the pitchmen would say: It's exactly like the original except on a train and....

Justice comes to the UK... / (Reviews)

The wealthy and powerful play games with peoples lives, and crush those who stand in the way of what they want. But sometimes, just sometimes, they lose.

A Clan Amir of Berant Story
Gerry Mannheim continues to grow and develop in response to the events around him. These stories show many aspects of his maturing attitudes and responses to those events.

How come people change? Can't the woman you married just stay like she was when you married her? / (Reviews)

A story in the The God and the Princess Universe
The final chapter of Andrew and Jennifer's story

Infidelity, murder, corrupt politicians, cynical lawyers, and a complete lack of justice. In other words my usual.

A Coldwater County Story
Rather than send the man to the state hospital, which is what I should have done, given his suicidal behavior, instead I chose a more self-indulgent course. As the police began to suspect my complicity, I cursed myself for my arrogance.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
When a shipment of weapons goes missing on a remote mining colony, Agent Boyd is sent to assess the situation. What he uncovers is a plot to take control of the planet, but during his getaway his spaceship is shot down. Stranded on the planet's moon and with only his survival suit at his disposal, he must find a way back to civilization, all while trying to deal with an unwitting alien companion.