Tag: organized crime
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The Asshat Fund by Todd Morr
Listen to this story on the podcast. 1. The wire digging into my wrists and the punches to the gut and face were unnecessary. I would have given them the name based on mean looks and harsh language. Depending on the day, they could have just asked nicely. After digging another upper cut into the…
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This Land of the Strange by Math Bird
Listen to this story on the podcast. Jernegan knew they’d come. He’d left enough clues for them to find him. Besides, Swain wanted him dead, so it was only a matter of time. Yet the moment he stepped off the bus and sniffed the air, such thoughts left, abandoning him to the smell of the…
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Zero Sum Game by Doug J. Black
Listen to this story on the podcast. He’d do anything for her. No, really. Anything. Barstow was my paradise. Not something you hear very often about a Mojave town with triple the violent crime of the average U.S. city. Barstow, the idiot offspring of the gold rush and the continental railroad, is surrounded by registered…
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Write Your Epitaph by Laird Long
Listen to this story on the podcast. It’s never too late to catch a dream. The judge was banging down hard on his gavel, but the angry hammering was lost in the babble of furious voices—shouting, swearing, screaming, howling. Someone stole a purse, busted into a store, scored some drugs, turned some tricks, fell down…
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Um Piexe Grande by Patti Abbott
Listen to this story on the podcast. “Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.” — William Shakespeare Though his eyes were squeezed tight, Gas could hear Loretta standing in their bedroom doorway, his lunch bag crinkling in her hand. He also knew from a variety of signs and smells…