Crime Stories

What if every choice you ever made carried a weight you could never escape? One decision, one ripple, one domino — and the world begins to unravel. In a story where science feels like magic and fate bends under the weight of consequence, the prologue opens not with answers, but with the first tremors of catastrophe. Something ancient stirs, a secret awakens, and the chain of events has already begun.

A The Adventures of Cocksockett Story
Calvin has another nightmare, and gains another piece of his history.

A story in the Beyond the Wall of Sleep Universe
Part of Gothic Horror Challenge
Danny had killed ten times. On reflection, was that bad?

Fourteen-year-old Stephan swims like a fish and looks like a Michelangelo statue as he plays in the sea off the Lido di Venezia beach in Venice in 1924. As he stretches and dries off on the sand, he is ogled by expatriate American banker Jeremy Biddle, German doctor Reinhard Gleason, English patrician Sir Clarence Hailley, and French priest Father Franz. Each of the men aches in want for the boy and each of them has him--but at a price.

As a fourteen-year-old orphan boy moves west with a wagon train after losing his parents and being taken on by a wagon master with the proviso the boy lie under him, in an encounter with a young, virile savage, the boy learns there are deeper pleasures to experience from ravishment.

Petite, charming, and desperate, Vanessa leaves everything behind for the gold-strewn wilderness of the Klondike. With little skill but plenty of cunning, she uses her wits—and her wiles—to survive in a land where every step can be fatal.

Following a deadly accident, the lives of a young couple are corrupted at the hands of their blackmailers and others.

INCLUDES TITLE ILLUSTRATION Dr Clare Keller has a certain way with the dead. She knows their secrets. Useful insight for a Medical Examiner who is no stranger to violent death. But Clare fails to heed a dire warning from beyond. A mistake with humiliating consequences.

A man gets to know his wife while held hostage by terrorists