Crime Stories

A cheating wife who dunnit

Adrian Voss believed that beauty obeyed rules. Symmetry, proportion, clean equations — the universe, he was sure, could be solved with enough geometry and caffeine. Until Sophia Morales showed up to class on crutches.

A Character Sketches of Sketchy Characters Story
"To say that Sklaven Kedduryk lies like a rug would be overestimating rugs everywhere." - Greyfinger

Beautiful Allison Remy decides to hit the town for a night of dancing but things quickly get out of hand when she meets a mysterious man.

This is a short flash fiction piece in response to a Writing Prompt: "She did it, she finally found the big bad wolf that ate her grandmother all those years ago, now to finish the job."

In a frozen gold-mining settlement where fear keeps doors shut, Erica Dutrieu is left for dead after a brutal beating by her husband. Rescued at terrible cost and forced to confront both frontier justice and her own will to survive, she fights back in the only way left to her. Harsh Times is a tale of violence, endurance, and hard-won hope on the edge of civilization.

A dead cheating wife! A missing lover! This is how things work in our small town.

Lisa has been suddenly transferred away from her super-hot boyfriend Steve in Atlanta to the NC mountains. After lonely months, a lesbian seduces her, steals from her, and disappears, just as Hurricane Helene strikes and leaves her homeless. When she calls him asking for help, he needs only seconds to offer her shelter, and a bed. Heh. His parents come over to help out; they're very open-minded.

He isn't meant to be touched. She isn't meant to want him. A quiet night, A touch breaks the rules no one dares to name. A girl, drawn by a pull she doesn't understand and doesn't resist, unleashes something the world wanted buried. As paths revealed, collide, desire blurs into danger. Blood flows, romance turns sharp. Loyalty fractures. Secrets surface. Some connections aren't forbidden because they're wrong, but because they change everything.

The school called at 4:02pm. A little girl hadn't been picked up. She was asking for me by name. I don't have a daughter. I have never had a daughter. I drove to that school to prove it. I was wrong.