Tag: domestic
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Government Assistance by M. A. B. Lee
Disasters bring out the best in people — but that’s not all they bring. Scam is such an unpleasant word, all phlegmy and in the throat. I prefer to think of my work as art, performance art, if you will. I have been doing it for many years and have developed a level of skill…
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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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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…
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The Woman Who Rowed Away by Tom Swoffer
A former police officer finds a boatload of trouble while looking for a woman who goes missing after a row around the lake. I was sitting on the deck of my family-inherited summer cottage, nursing my third seven-seven and watching the late afternoon sun setting like a dark purple bruise over the lake, when I…