The headcount is seven. A serial killer is working the strip-clubs of lower Manhattan. But that’s Detective Tomasina Vencenzi’s beat... and Tommy doesn’t like it when someone messes with her girls.
Sometimes you believe and sometimes you don't. I have a friend, Nathaniel, who has changed my mind about many things. Hospital Island taught him a very serious fact. Don't trust a Red Coat! It's nice to have a friend help with writing stories too and he helps me in more ways than you can imagine.
INCLUDES ILLUSTRATION- Jill’s eighteenth should have been a carefree transition into maturity. Not one marred by the pain and humiliation of being robbed of her virginity when her sorority birthday party is invaded by armed men in search of ransom money and party-favors. Detective Tomasina Vencenzi has lived through that same humiliation and vows to get the girls back, even if it means placing what’s left of her own torn virtue on the line in a desperate rescue attempt.
"She felt an arm seize her... Alison knew she was going to die, choked to death as he raped her." It's 1978 and Alison wants to travel, finding good and bad in the world.
A Halloween 2023 Contest Entry
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations, but when a death-oath is given, it's to be taken seriously. There's only so much you can do to spit in the eyes of Karma before it comes to collect it's due. Life is a 'wandering to find home'… but for some people, after death the obligations can become even heavier still.
Includes a Cover Illustration: CIA operative, Taz Azaria arrives in New York to investigate the attempted abduction of Spencer's wife. The kidnapping fails but things heat up when the perpetrators turn up at the bottom of the East River. The trail leads Taz to the Kat and Mouse, a Manhattan gentleman’s club where, in an effort to pursue the case, Taz joins the ranks of the Kittens– young European women, victims of sex-trafficking and forced to provide services to the wealthy male patrons.