Category: Stories
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Doing God’s Work by Wayne Scheer
Listen to this story on the podcast. “God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform;” — William Cowper Eli and Vernon Browbridge rolled The Fat Man’s bloated body from the trunk of their 1987 Pontiac Grand Prix into the hole in the ground they had just dug. Eli spoke first. “I wonder if…
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Murderous Lies by Peter DiChellis
Listen to this story on the podcast. Sometimes, there’s no plan at all. Only improvisation. I remember everything about that night: the truth, the terror, the luck, and the lies. Someday I want to forget. As always, Larry’s Tavern was dark and dank as a moldy cellar. A woman sitting at one end of the…
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House Cleaning by Ian Creasey
It’s magical when kids help out around the house. There was a dead mouse in Mum’s bedroom. Simon gently pushed the door open and crept in. He smelled his mother’s perfume, almost overwhelmed by the odour of sweat and cigarettes and sour alcohol. A ray of morning sunlight shone through the curtains like a spotlight,…
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Sirens by Gary Cahill
Listen to this story on the podcast. True love is hard to find. The stroll from sidewalk to shoreline was longer than ever, formidable on a given day, crossing the rare beach in Jersey getting wider every year, erosion from the north dumping more white powder to the south and pushing water’s edge further into the…
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The Ring by Aislinn Batstone
Things have a funny way of working out – for some people, anyway. Elliot didn’t know what had made him stop in at the pawnbroker’s on his way home from work that Tuesday evening. Perhaps simply the fact that it was so close to his apartment, just across the street behind his building. He certainly…