Tag: robbery
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Mysterious Private Investigations by Peter DiChellis
Listen to this story on the podcast. Jimmy told me about the burglary almost exactly a year after it happened. Right after we got thrown out of the pawnshop where Jimmy tried to sell the jewelry. He had gone into a house one afternoon, Jimmy told me, with a guy everybody called Howie The Dog…
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The Bulldog Ant is Not a Team Player by Dan Stout
Listen to this story on the podcast. Whoever said that there’s honor among thieves must have worked alone. Scientists both cruel and curious have demonstrated that a Bulldog Ant cut in two will continue to lash out at anything nearby, including itself, the heads and bodies biting and stinging their missing halves until either death…
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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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Miscellany by Eryk Pruitt
Listen to this story on the podcast. Not much ever happens in those little out of the way stores. Except when it does. There’s a filling station just south of Durham, North Carolina, that raised a ruckus a while back because the owner refused to take down a Confederate flag he’d hoisted above the building. Imagine…
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How Green Was My Valet by John H. Dromey
Listen to this story on the podcast. It’s the familiar things you never notice that sometimes matter most. Although perhaps not young enough or tall enough to become a top model, and decidedly not svelte enough to squeeze her ample charms into the impossibly-small confines of size zero haute couture gowns, the smartly-dressed woman nonetheless…