Category: Stories
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Pongo’s Lucky Day by Craig Faustus Buck
The gift that keeps on giving sometimes gives you a little more than you bargained for. Pongo Smith’s adrenaline could have burst a fire hose. The cash wouldn’t stop gushing. He had to keep pulling bills from the slot to make room for the ATM to feed new ones. Then his sluggish brain kicked in.…
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Shadows by E. J. Togneri
Appearances can, and will, be deceiving. In the year 2012, hiring a PI was a luxury purchase, the kind most people had cut back on, an unintentional deferral for cheating husbands and insurance fraudsters. So on that gloomy November day, I welcomed new client Catherine Sigerman to my dimly lit New Brunswick office. A paying…
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The Little Outlaw by Mike Miner
They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and it’s especially true in a storm. Today’s story is sponsored by Grammarly, a great online tool to grammar check your writing. Sign up for a free seven-day trial. Mary was supposed to be asleep. She was upstairs, in her room, in her bed, but…
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But Not Forgotten by Martin Roy Hill
That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge I didn’t set out to kill Frank Adams because I wanted his money. There was little enough of that left in the family to bicker over, let alone kill for.…
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The Uninvited Spook by C. D. Reimer
When you’re in the spy business it pays to remember that you’re never off the job, even at a party. He adjusted the parabolic microphone to aim at the apartment building across the street. The angle wasn’t perfect for this type of surveillance since he had to hide in the shadows of an air conditioning…