Crime Stories

A man makes those who attacked him pay dearly.

Longtime friends Barry and Larry are on the back porch after (high) school with their laptops. Is that homework on their screens? The hot young widow next door sees repetitive motions through their fence's knot hole, and videos them. Maybe she can offer something non-electronic for their laps, hmm? When she's done, those 2 guys and their 2 girlfriends have poked through their first fence line to adulthood and found love.

On traffic patrol one hot Texas night, an old truck comes my way going way too fast. When I pull over the driver, I discover it is a beautiful young woman... and she's driving topless!

Old fellah gradually collects some friends to share his interests in sex, diving, boating and mushrooms. They include a formerly hot young chick with a grandfather fetish who is now an old chick, a very well brought up Catholic girl, now exploring all sorts of new and exciting experiences, an old diving buddy with an interesting past, and some neighbours with their own secrets. As the story develops, the personal histories of the characters emerge. Various adventures follow.

Sheriff Bull is again able to help out a rich family.

A story in the Night of Madness Universe
It has been two years since the Night of Madness, and Tina has settled into her new life. But now divorced, she meets one of her regular customers and gets an offer she can't refuse.

Comely and perfectly formed Cotta Antullius, third son of an armaments fabricator for the Roman gladiator school in the hedonist reign of Emperor Caligula, is in training in various possible careers of serving men when a visit to the gladiator waiting cells under the colosseum stands accelerates his experience and family misfortune forces him to be sold into slavery to an old general using him for his own ambitions.

When a prominent crime reporter’s wife is found hanging naked from the stair railing, all eyes turn on retired crime boss, Tomas Bonanno, a man who can turn an alibi quicker than a hooker can turn a trick. But Detective Jilly Anderson, looking through the opposite end of the telescope, quickly realizes that Bonanno isn’t the man who needs the alibi.

In ancient Cyrene, where the Greek gods are real and grant powers to their worshippers, a member of the city guard investigates the murder of a prostitute.

I looked at the letter and my world ended in flames, I thought.