Tag: kidnapping
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Bad John by Adam Howe
What’s not to like about a dog-lover? Sadie shivered in the falling snow, hands dug deep in the pockets of her mangy leopard print coat, hungrily eyeing the cars curb-crawling the Strip. Music boomed inside the titty bar behind her, the black tinted window quaking to the bass. She’d danced there herself when she first…
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Old Friends by Frank Byrns
Listen to this story on the podcast. There’s nothing quite like a friend dropping in unexpectedly. The boys looked a lot different since the last time I saw them. They should have; it’d been almost ten years. Reed was twelve now, sandy-haired, the first hint of his old man’s barrel chest beginning to show. Leo,…
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Man On The Run by Laird Long
We all dream of escaping sometimes — but there’s more than one way to get away. The big cab was pushing forty when he slammed on the brakes. The car skidded to an icy stop in front of her, its mammoth bumper nodding gently against her knees. He pulled his foot out of the floorboards and cursed.…
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Three Times a Killer by Michael Haynes
When a job seems to be easy money, maybe what you were hired for isn’t exactly why you’re there. I was sitting at a bar, drinking another Black Label, when the man came up to me. I should have known he was bad news, a fellow like that with his nice suit, in a low-rent bar like…