Thriller Stories

In the stateless territory of Acadiana, trust is the law of the land. Maxim Galloway is a private intelligence agent who finds himself harboring a thief on the run, banking executive Joseph Wells. The man he stole from is out for blood, and a tactical team is closing in for the capture. Armed only with his wits and a tech-enhanced intuition, Galloway must decide if he will allow vigilante justice to destroy the fragile social order, or risk his life to save a desperate outlaw.

A story in the Beyond the Wall of Sleep Universe
Part of Gothic Horror Challenge
A remorseful woman and a vengeful spirit. how will this play out?

When a suitcase full of cocaine goes missing, a Mafia hitwoman gets more than her hands dirty as she unravels the mystery and settles old scores. The hard part will be turning her innocent fiancé into the perfect house-husband. -- NOTE: There really are some mildly unsavory activities in this story, so please exercise caution. Use the codes.

Includes Cover Illustration: Operative Taz Azaria plots to assassinate Ravena Volkov, a rogue Soviet official. But Taz is betrayed and Volkov invites Taz to her apartment to extract revenge.

A young WW2 veteran and athlete has everything going for him, but Fate is just around the corner.

Never pick up a stranger.

The roads of the Weird Wild West are not for everyone. Where death lurks around every bend, there is no room for the weak. Where the dead rise from their graves and the nights are flooded with the light of a blood-red moon, only those who learn fast can survive. Only those capable of taking responsibility and leading others. Cut off from anyone who could come to her rescue, Rose must learn these harsh lessons—or remain forever in one of the nameless graves that litter these harsh lands.

A Commissario Emma Rizzi's Investigations Story
"You have been caught cheating. You have been sentenced to death" Who is targeting and killing cheating women in Milan?

Three women are held captive during a bank hold-up: the fifty-something divorced, sophisticated Assistant Manger; a thirty-something attractive woman trapped in an unhappy marriage; a cute seventeen-year-old devout Christian who is saving her virtue for her wedding day. The bank robbers have just been released after serving long prison sentences, and are hungry not only for money; but for sex.

Sassy woman and her docile husband are pulled over on a deserted road by two cops. The woman runs her mouth so the cops take her to an abandoned mine and teach her a lesson she will never forget and make her husband watch.