Jack Knight donned his helmet & lowered the canopy. He'd wanted to be a fighter pilot as long as he could remember but lived in fear his jet would explode in a fiery plume of death

Detective J. Manatee's instincts for detection did not help much as he fumbled through the sock drawer of D.I. Monty Rebus, who was snoring on the davenport in his aquatic habitat,

Lilith was lost

Outrage upon seeing the poor & most affluent living practically side-by-side in slums & luxury villas of Mumbai were tempered with the realization this was a microcosm of the world

Merritt Crawford waited until his parents' dinner guests had repaired into the drawing room before he crawled under the long dining table in the Azure Room, searching for

If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is

My father was a cat herder, a wily wrangler of domestic short-hairs. It was not an easy job but someone had to do it. Sometimes when he came home from an especially long ride,

Debbie couldn't sleep. The results of the European elections were due & she couldn't wait to discover the new composition of the European Parliament. She heard a sound from the riv

Stanley pulled his buzzing phone out of his pocket. "Yellow?"

"You got a fast car. I want a ticket to anywhere. Maybe we make a deal?" the scruffy hobo rasped as he leaned against my Lamborghini. "YOLO," I replied. "Get in & hold on."

George woke to the sound of drumming. Not birdsong, like most mornings, or even a bustling band of cyclists parading down the street at 6 AM. He pulled back the drapes and saw

And now the story of how I got that scar. Lenny "The Knife" and I were out tipping a few whiskeys one night. Lenny was talking to this girl with an intricate facial tattoo of a key

There once was a man named Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. He was shot in the head on accident after attempting suicide with the same gun. He was resurrected and then he

The dog wagged his tail.yelping and barking as he searched the ground with his nose

The finger started moving on it's own accord. Why though? Why now? It dragged me across the room, pulling me out the door and on to the streets of London. It was a rainy afternoon

Murdock Lipschitz carefully removed the cylinder he'd labeled with RADIOACTIVE WASTE nearly three decades earlier from the vault at the back of the lab. He unscrewed the lid and pu

Chance finally offered some support. "I know what it's like to be an outsider." Jurtok flexed its spiroclasms. "Do you?! Do you really?!!" Jherelia observed from nearby yet afar.

Since I've had a moustache and glasses drawn on my face with an indelible Sharpie, women are drawn irresistibly to me. Or is it the Lynx?

Tuesdays are the day I get the most done. Most Tuesdays, but this one was different. My cat Wednesday was sick this particular Tuesday. She'd been sick since Friday. All Sunday

Nobody expects hipsters to be non-hipsters by going against the grain. drunk man argued with me to no end that hipsters did things that weren’t hip, in a