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Once Upon A Little Black Book
Everyday Jerri sleeps straight through the alarm. She never hears it go off. The dog starts barking at the alarm because it hates it. The baby starts screaming because the dog woke her up. Then mother starts yelling to, SHUT THAT DOG UP." Then her father starts yelling that he worked all night and was trying to get some seep. Jerri's mother will come and shut off the alarm and give Jerri a shake.
By Deborah Zbieronek5 years ago in Criminal
Just Another Dive Bar
She walked down the street, deep in thought about the events from the past week. She didn’t see her tail, even though he wasn’t being particularly careful. She was too self-absorbed in her own thoughts. She had been going by the name Jasmine of late, perhaps that was to hide from her past, perhaps it was to start afresh. She didn’t even know anymore.
By Daryl Benson5 years ago in Criminal
The Stash in the Attic
Edward B. Farber Words: 1,680 The Stash in the Attic She reached into the cloth shopping bag, pulled out a wad of money, counted out five $100 bills and laid them on my desk.
By Edward Farber5 years ago in Criminal
As The Crow Flies
As the Crow Flies Sitting comfortably at last in the therapist's overstuffed armchair, I looked up and smiled. She, over-dressed and conspicuously prosperous, smiled coldly back.
By Jonathan Tanburn5 years ago in Criminal
SECOND CHANCES
When I walked into work that morning, he was already sitting alone in the last booth: a well-dressed and distinguished-looking older gentleman with a head full of silver hair and a kind smile. I'd only been working here at the Last Stop Cafe for a week, and I already had my first regular.
By K.C. Nord5 years ago in Criminal
Captured
It was about 2am and I was about to end my shift at the local diner. I live in a pretty small town where nothing exciting ever happens. My name is Lucy and I live in a small, ratty, old cabin at the edge of the town surrounded by all the trees. It’s the dead of winter and I’m struggling to keep all of the bills on top of each other. My parents disappeared when I was only 16, leaving me to care for my 5-year-old sister, Everly, by myself.
By Katelyn Martin5 years ago in Criminal
20,000
They always told me that money was the root of all evil, but I never realized just how true that was. I am walking down the street when I get a phone call.
By Michelle O'Quinn5 years ago in Criminal
Stupid Assassin. Top Story - February 2021.
The street below is as empty as it always is in the warehouse district at-- What time is it? Matthias Stone pushes up the sleeve of his simple black suit jacket. His silver watch reads 7:15, but he thinks maybe the hour hand approaching 8, and the minute hand being over the 3, means it is 8:03. He’s not sure why he even wears the thing, since he can’t read the time. One of these days he’ll invest in a digital watch, or get one of those phone things.
By Byron Hamel5 years ago in Criminal
The Man Who Killed Jeffrey Dahmer: Hero?
We all know the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer. The gay man who killed other gay men for pleasure. Having intercourse with them wasn't enough. He had to lure them, drug them, kill them. He would cuddle with their bodies and then have intercourse with them.
By Jax Wolf5 years ago in Criminal
The Guilty(2018)- Review
The Guilty is a Danish crime thriller featuring Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), a Copenhagen police officer awaiting a hearing for shooting a man while on duty. Currently, he is assigned to answer emergency calls. The day prior to his hearing Asger receives a call from a woman who identifies herself as Iben Østergård (Jessica Dinnage). Not getting any cries for help or claiming an emergency, he doesn't make too much of the call and is about to hang up. But as he continued with the conversation with Iben he realizes that she is under some kind of distress and discreetly reveals to him she has been abducted and is in a white van. The movie throughout continuous with build-ups in this storyline; Asger using his skills and doing all he can for rescuing the woman who is counting on him.
By The Couch Review5 years ago in Criminal
A truth unfolds
As she walked through the park Megan could not help but notice the man staring at her with such an intense scowl across his brow.
By Celice Maree5 years ago in Criminal
The Talent Spotter
Total Eclipse of The Heart is playing and I tense up. Fucking hate this. Here I am riding shotgun in an Uber, gliding through the streets of downtown Washington, listening to the guy driving this Lexus going on about the Nationals’ chance this year and that comes on low in the background. Why do I hate it so much? Because of a prophesy. A prophecy that I will die with that as my soundtrack. So I’m talking to him, trying not to piss on his fire too much because as a Cubs fan I know all about disappointment but also worried we’re about to get T-boned by a truck or something. It doesn’t happen. My skin crawls anyway.
By Kirk Kenny5 years ago in Criminal