Crime Stories

A newly arrived fourteen-year-old military academy cadet meets a randy redneck night fisherman in a truck by a lake where the cadet has been dumped, nearly naked, in a hazing ritual.

I didn't know there was bad trouble coming until it was almost too late for my continued health.

A girl with the power to manipulate others' minds meets her match in this flash fiction story.

A hotel burglar gets lucky.

The Robertson’s love their new home and their neighbors. Dennis starts hiring people to staff his manufacturing plant. But a local gang doesn’t like that he’s not hiring their members, so they kidnapped Sarah to force him to do so. But Dennis is not the kind of man to take well to threats!

A The Adventures of Cocksockett Story
In which Calienté takes a little ride...

Jackie the narrator is a common young thief, reporting back to his Fence, having gone outside of his comfort zone. He's a successful ram-raider. His hero is The Panther, a cat burglar with a reputation on being Old School. Can Jackie emulate his hero and rob softly softly?

Stopping terrorism with sexually transmitted diseases.

Meet Sergeant Detective Quentin Graves of the Denver Police Department. Murderers are his game, and the game is afoot. The questions went back and forth for twenty minutes or more. After some angst on the suspect’s part, the man broke into a paranoid gibberish for several minutes. Stopping, he took a deep breath and said, “Okay, this is what happened.” And so, William Mitchel began his bizarre account.