Tag: missing person
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Broken Hearts by Laird Long
Listen to this story on the podcast. The house was in the hot part of Hollywood. The part where the sun doesn’t shine tourist-bright and pleasant, but rather hot and oppressive; the part where you’d never dream in your wildest scar-dust dreams that there was a great big, cool blue ocean only five miles away.…
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Death by Fiction by J. M. Vogel
Listen to this story on the podcast. There’s a blurred line between truth and fiction that you don’t want to cross. Alexander sat at his desk, his fingers pounding away on the keyboard. After days of trying to figure out this one particular passage of his novel, he finally knew how he wanted to end…
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Slice by Tom Barlow
Listen to this story on the podcast. Golf sometimes spoils more than just a good walk. He was seated on the floor, snoring softly, outside my office door when I arrived that morning. He had no appointment. The man appeared to have at least a decade on me, mid-50’s, built like a stump with a…
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Loveable Alan Atcliffe by S.R. Mastrantone
Some people are so nice, it just seems too good to be true. Loveable Alan Atcliffe: that’s what they call him. Like Mrs. Montgomery, who waited for the breakdown people for nearly an hour in the dark of winter 2001, before Alan pulled over in his taxi and changed her tyre in just five minutes.…
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Inured By Stephen D. Rogers
Human beings have the remarkable ability to adapt to just about anything. The ferry to Martha’s Vineyard was mostly empty up here on the rooftop level, the sky gray and the wind sharp, the smell of the open water different than that found on the beaches of Cape Cod. Almost all of the other passengers…