Category: Stories
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This Land of the Strange by Math Bird
Listen to this story on the podcast. Jernegan knew they’d come. He’d left enough clues for them to find him. Besides, Swain wanted him dead, so it was only a matter of time. Yet the moment he stepped off the bus and sniffed the air, such thoughts left, abandoning him to the smell of the…
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Broad Daylight by Eve Fisher
Listen to this story on the podcast. When we arrived, Jack Olson was lying in a pool of blood on Carl Jacobsen’s study floor. The wall behind him, including the white frames around the broken window, was a mess, sprayed with dark red bits and blobs of Jack. He looked surprised at being dead. Carl…
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Honeymoon Sweet by Craig Faustus Buck
Listen to this story on the podcast. For a sweet house, right on Santa Monica Beach, it was unbelievably easy to break into. Mickey found a window he could open with a putty knife, so the double-locked doors were a joke. And Lana disabled the alarm within the forty-five-second grace period before it would have…
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Zero Sum Game by Doug J. Black
Listen to this story on the podcast. He’d do anything for her. No, really. Anything. Barstow was my paradise. Not something you hear very often about a Mojave town with triple the violent crime of the average U.S. city. Barstow, the idiot offspring of the gold rush and the continental railroad, is surrounded by registered…
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The World’s Best Coffee by C. D. Reimer
Listen to this story on the podcast. One half-caf demitasse skim vanilla crime latte, please. The coffee shop overflowed with people drinking coffee and eating pastries when Mark walked through the doors to step in front of the pastry display case, where the separate lines for paying and picking up orders at the opposite ends…