Juan listened to Michelle's inquiry and quietly told her not to worry. He was sure everything was okay. Jack was a big boy and knew very well how to take care of himself. Placing the phone in its cradle, Juan leaned back in his chair and contemplated what it could mean. Someone at a car rental company in Miami had done a routine check on Jack's card just t...
Daniel felt the hunger eating at his dark soul. It was the same hunger that had pounded inside of him for almost a thousand years. Never-ending hunger. Because unlike the weak humans that shoved and pushed all around him to the pounding rhythm of the music, hunger could not kill him. Starvation brought only pain; it could not gift him with the blessed releas...
Confused is putting it mildly. My night with Trish and Bob had more of an effect on me than I realized. I couldn't get it off my mind. I couldn't concentrate on work or on helping my daughter get ready for her senior year in high school or much of anything else for the next week or so. I saw Trish in passing, and she waved at me from her porch one morning...
Scarlett woke startled from the intense dream that she was having, her face damp. She sat up from her desk and looked around for a towel to dab at her forehead. Finding one behind her, she grabbed it and wiped off the sweat about her face and neck. Looking at the clock on her desk, she sighed and clicked off her computer. "Another late night," she said as sh...
Sakrilege. The name of the club is a blinding white slash of letters over the door. Spanning nearly a block, the building has all the attractiveness of an industrial factory without the offending smoke stash. But just inside, beyond the lithe press of the crowd and the towering bouncers, is another world entirely. Through a hallway steeped in deep gray, th...
Two Gun Salute To Life This story is from the world of the Mirror of Love. It is a separate story but ties into the other as the stories weave together. My name was Jack Slaughter and that's what I did. I was born with this curse that I wore like a tight fitting suit of clothes from that first day until now. A ball bouncing down a hill was slow to me. A...
Millstone - ONE - (Hanging the Chimney Hook) All Rights Reserved © 2020, Rick Heathen This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental...
"IN THE DARK" EDITED BY: Miriam Belle CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Simply_Cyn *** The sun illuminated the city of San Francisco in the waning hours of the morning; it's citizens hurrying to and from the home and office. Their business and commerce being of chief importance, lives so thoroughly involved with self that they rarely had time to stop and think of o...
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Previously on Vice Cop, Hudson and Lexa, working Homicide, went undercover chasing an elusive killer known as The Yellow Cab Killer, a taxi cab driver who murdered his passengers. The killer, disguised as a passenger, had Hudson drive him to the airport where he made his escape, teaching Hudson he couldn't always save the day. This episode has a lot of plo...