Category: Stories
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Afterwards by Jeff Poole
Listen to this story on the podcast. They say you can’t go home again, but you can’t get away again, either. After the divorce Fred Buckley used some of his frequent flyer miles to leave it all behind. It had been an acrimonious affair. He traveled a lot for his job, so he’d piled up…
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Other Wishes by Richard Zwicker
Listen to this story on the podcast. Be careful what you wish for. Christmas wreaths, tinsel, and stars lined the smoky walls of the White Hart Pub. Memories of holidays, softened by distance, battled the harder edges of my current situation. The lack of possibilities in my dark flat once again sent me here, where…
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The Mystery of the Missing Puskat by Lavie Tidhar
Listen to this story on the podcast. When you’re the only detective around, no case is too small. Densley Takes On A Case He knows America well; there are cars in Detroit, and gangsters in Chicago. New York has the Mob, and Man Jew, and Broadway, and Hollywood is called La-la land and it is…
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The Bulldog Ant is Not a Team Player by Dan Stout
Listen to this story on the podcast. Whoever said that there’s honor among thieves must have worked alone. Scientists both cruel and curious have demonstrated that a Bulldog Ant cut in two will continue to lash out at anything nearby, including itself, the heads and bodies biting and stinging their missing halves until either death…
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The Basement by MJ Gardner
Listen to this story on the podcast. A girl needs to do what she can to stay safe. So if I tell it to you all over again can I get out of this dress? Why do I have to tell it to you? They wrote it all down. But I suppose you’re a shrink…