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Maria Marten and the Red Barn. Top Story - July 2021.
Foxy Corder was a born philanderer and a petty criminal; always running after the ladies in the village and selling pigs that weren’t even his. This is his story, a true crime, set in the village of Polstead, England. The year of misadventure; 1827.
By SARAH STEWART5 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 'Downeast'
Downeast is a rarity in this modern movie world. It’s a tiny, independent, gritty crime thriller that doesn’t feel as if it is recycling every crime movie cliche. Sure, the characters and the situation are familiar but the setting is new and the characters are authentic and charismatic. Written and directed by Joe Raffa, Downeast is a smart crime drama pitched at a perfect moderate pace that allows the characters to breathe and lets the story to settle into a lovely rise and fall.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Criminal
Hard Lesson to Learn
Beth signed sat in front of her laptop which illuminated her face and cast an eerie shadow on the wall behind her. Her friends had been encouraging her to join an online dating site so she could finally find a decent person to date. She had a string of losers since she left college and thought she had nothing to lose. Her father, a local sheriff’s deputy, always warned her about those sites being dangerous.
By Barb Dukeman5 years ago in Criminal
Rebellious Elkie
Two months ago, I was forced to leave the small town I had lived in for my entire life. According to my mother, I am too rebellious for their household. Being forced to leave meant that I would have to find a place to live, and a job. I was officially cut from their entire lives. Which is completely alright. After all that was two months ago. Currently I am working at a night club as a dancer. The owner is a man by the name of Lucio Genovese.
By Somniare Omnia5 years ago in Criminal
JACK OD DIAMONDS
CHAPTER 12 Part TWO (WHILE IN THE DOMINION OF...) Anatoly watched his father walk away, thinking if he could retrieve the Cromwell Skull, he might be able to pay off some of the bills he’d picked up over the last months. One thing he’d discovered at great cost to himself, was the amount of money needed to run a counter-revolution. He doubted very much if his father would help him out of the hole he’d found himself wallowing in. Knowing him as he did, Anatoly assumed his father would simply tell him it was his problem to sort out.
By ben woestenburg5 years ago in Criminal
Dear Brenda...
Inspired by the true story of Sandra Duyst, a Michigan woman... The shadows of two middle-aged women comb over the dirt inside a large red barn, located on the outskirts of Michigan. Everything is still in place. Haystacks neatly piled in the back corner. Each of the four horses are fed. The first woman, a middle-aged woman named Brenda, runs her hair through her dirty blonde hair, frizzed due to the stress of the last three months. Her sister, Anna, trails behind her. The girls gaze around at the farm that their eldest sister, Sandy, loved.
By Sierra Ginae.5 years ago in Criminal
The Murdering Barn
Phillip Jackson comes home from a one month business trip. But something is out of place, seriously out of place. He can't find his parents, his wife, housekeeper, nor nurse that was hired several months before he left on his business trip.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee5 years ago in Criminal
