Crime Stories

How did a rainy day change the lifestyle of a simple Indian housewife? All she wanted was to help some beggars

Bill King survived the War in Iraq. Then danger followed him to San Francisco.

On his last school day before preparing to live with his father, white 14-year-old Ethan is groped and kissed by his hunky black track coach. The next week, while biking up to a remote mountain reservoir, Ethan stops at a country store, where he encounters the coach, who lures Ethan into his van for heavy petting and foreplay. When the coach wants to move to the back of the van, where there are restraints and padding, Ethan flees and bikes up to the reservoir. The coach follows him in the van.

Ricky does movies and is booked to fly from L.A. to New York for an audition. At the last minute, the agent can’t make the trip and a guy in an airline uniform agrees to watch out for Ricky until he gets on the plane to New York from a Chicago connection. Chicago is socked in by a blizzard when they land there, though, with Ricky needing and getting more help than had been anticipated.

A man known as “the Hygienist” goes to a luxurious apartment for a peculiar cleaning job, but the situation takes an unexpected and unsettling turn that challenges his idea of professionalism and morality.

A short story about my favorite 'type' of attorney. He helps his client beat a murder charge with a novel idea.

It started with the question "What is your fantasy?"

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!

When a sixteen-year-old boy walks the road beneath a fortress wall, he expects fear—but not a wounded woman hidden among the brambles. Drawn in by her strange green eyes and her quiet authority, he hides her from the world and tends to her. Dark medieval fantasy about power, devotion, and how easily innocence can be guided astray.

I had known Kelly Caswell (nee Grayson) since sixth grade, and we had been married for 8 years when the bad events started.