Tag: theft
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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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The Double Iron Cross by William E. Wallace
Listen to this story on the podcast. I stayed in bed, pretending to be asleep until Nola left for work. I needed to piss and take a dump in the worst way but I knew if I got up while she was still home, she would get into it with me about getting out of…
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The World’s Best Coffee by C. D. Reimer
Listen to this story on the podcast. One half-caf demitasse skim vanilla crime latte, please. The coffee shop overflowed with people drinking coffee and eating pastries when Mark walked through the doors to step in front of the pastry display case, where the separate lines for paying and picking up orders at the opposite ends…
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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…
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The Ring by Aislinn Batstone
Things have a funny way of working out – for some people, anyway. Elliot didn’t know what had made him stop in at the pawnbroker’s on his way home from work that Tuesday evening. Perhaps simply the fact that it was so close to his apartment, just across the street behind his building. He certainly…