Michael Guerin
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Scratch That
BEER - CIGARETTES - LOTTERY - HOT FOOD. These were the delights offered by the convenience store in which Bhavna Patel had labored for the past six years. To call barely-warmed rotisserie hot dogs hot food was stretching it a bit, but otherwise, it was a fair advertisement. The owner was committed to giving his customers what they wanted, and in this part of town, that meant cheap eats, beer, smokes, and lottery tickets. Business was brisk. Bhavna was usually kept quite busy working the cash register or marking prices during her ten hour shift. But there were lulls.
By Michael Guerin5 years ago in Humans
Cache Money
Drug dealers. Greg hated them. Well, at this point in his life, anyway. It was a different story twenty years ago. Back then, whom else could supply the weed, coke, uppers and downers that constituted his daily psychotropic diet? The dealers were his buddies, his bulwarks against sobriety.
By Michael Guerin5 years ago in Criminal
The Appraisal
They called them “ghost” houses. They being Stan Helmig and a couple of his fellow probate lawyers. Occasionally, in keeping with his duties, Stan had to personally go into the home of some poor soul who had died intestate and try to establish the value of the house and its contents. He usually did so alone, although not by choice. Rummaging through a dead stranger’s belongings tended to creep him out. And if that person had died in their house, well, that would be a very speedy estimate indeed.
By Michael Guerin5 years ago in Motivation
Lost and Found
The Notebook He showed up precisely at six o’clock, just as he had every other Thursday night for the past eight weeks. By now, Valerie could almost pick out his elegant black overcoat from amongst the others in the cloakroom just by its scent and feel, no ticket needed. She had taken to keeping it in a special, isolated nook, a consideration she liked to think he noticed and appreciated. She certainly appreciated the twenty he always handed her whenever she gave it back.
By Michael Guerin5 years ago in Humans
