“Pre-flight Checkmate” by Howard Gimple
Wearing a blue TSA uniform, a LaGuardia Airport security badge and large wraparound dark glasses, Jay drove to the south runway, where Morrison and his pilot were preparing for a pre-dawn flight . . .
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“Red Pants Take Warning” by Jean Wolfersteig
This morning, the front page of the East Hampton Star headlined the robbery and spectacular murder of a local resident in her home. Strangled with fishing line . . .
“1998 Niagara” by Pat Mooney Sweet
On Columbus Day weekend my brother and I had gone to a mass dedicated to our father who’d died of a heart attack in the back room of 1998 Niagara Street . . .
“The Long Shadow of Sing Sing” by Michael Boatman
Once, I lived in Tarrytown, in a six bedroom Tudor set high in the hills. My living room windows looked out across the Hudson to the green expanse of Rockland County on its far side. This was back when I was married; before Floyd Flake bit off my left ear and won the World Heavyweight title by a “knockout.” . . .
EVENT ALERT: Jessica Luther/Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Find out if Unsportsmanlike Conduct author Jessica Luther is coming to a city near you.
“On the Bus” by Nathan Ward
New York was scruffier then; everywhere you saw signs of its humbling in its bald park lawns and strobe-popping Broadway head shops . . .
EVENT ALERT: Barbara J. Taylor & Kaylie Jones @ Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC
New Yorkers: Join author Barbara J. Taylor for the NYC release of All Waiting Is Long on Wed., 8/10 @ 7pm!
“Progress” by Patrick McEvoy
Progress. Ronald laughed ruefully at the concept. Sure, yeah, that’s what he was looking at. Or a physical manifestation of it anyway . . .