There had been a no-contract murder. An unauthorized death. And as usual, the neighborhood wasn’t talking. Neighbors saw nothing, heard nothing, not even the hounds barking in the alleyway because [...]

‘Wait – you’ll see. This is gonna be great. Better than great. That’s if you agree to help out here.’ ‘I’m not interested, in the least, in your most wonderfully [...]

Tell me’, she said, ‘Do you play?’ Startled and confused he was momentarily at a loss for words. Then he understood what she was asking him. ‘No, actually I don’t. [...]

The diner counter ran in an elongated u-shape from the open kitchen window parallel to the entrance door. She sat there idly twirling the spoon in the chipped enamel coffee mug. [...]

Dean, Kirk, Ralph and the Bear….. Dean in a dinner jacket, tie askew, slim, elegant – martini glass in hand Kirk - urbane, hair slightly longer than the fashion, over [...]

Domini It was a day of immense, intense excitement and anticipation the morning he and the others had patiently, and impatiently, awaited. It was the culmination - then of a [...]

faintly sundown The heat/warmth of a welcome exhaustion wash over me. Sun and day is fading slowly into a misty sunset. Off to the left, far down in the deepest [...]

Rain, brittle - on the verge of breaking. On the very cusp of transformation. To sleet first, then probably...probably to snow. 'Snow would be definitely better', he thought as he [...]

n e w b i e  #4 ‘Okay....newbie...your turn’ He looked at her – then at the others. Granted, he hadn’t been paying close attention to what was going on [...]

bereshith : : in the beginning There was, as there is with all things, a beginning. But, she couldn’t exactly remember where, or when that was now; nor how far [...]