“A Day’s Work” by John Bosworth
“Thieves,” Officer Summers said, “are generally lazy.”
Tag: Noir
“The Fair Land” by Séamus Scanlon
Near dawn I wake. / The pale blue light cascades over me. / It drills and spills down through me…
“Triple Threat” by David Strickler
A bar of sunlight woke me up this morning and I told my husband that I wanted to watch one of those twenty-four-hour news channels.
“Helpless” by Séamus Scanlon
“In Eyre Square the boy Victor waited, watching the front entrance of the Great Southern Hotel. The bells of the Abbey church struck 2:00 am in the rain-solaced silence.”
“The Sparrow” by Kristen Petry
The sparrow literally dropped through the flue into Helen’s cold fire place at just barely daylight. At first, she thought she imagined it.
“Cutting Corners” by Dick Carmel
Blades reached her just as the light at State and Washington turned green . . .
“Keep Portland Weird” by Tom Larsen
“Keep Portland Weird.” I see it on signs all over town, but what does it even mean?
“A Body Appears” by Douglas Cole
Ah, those eyes. You look into them, and you still see the fire, at least for a little while . . .