this is an excerpt from an unfinished project about a reporter who becomes infatuated with a female detective who is caught in the middle of a media shit-storm
“Sometimes,†she exhaled second hand Marlboro into the air, “It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permissionâ€.
“So, are you saying it’s okay to do […]
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this is written from a prompt in a book I picked up. Hope you enjoy, its off the wall>
It was hot. It was the kind of hot that actually made her feel hot, even after all these years on the job. She was using her “work voice”, throaty and sexy, and she couldn’t help licking […]
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He stood on the sidewalk, a hand in his pocket, smoking a cigarette with nothing to shield him from the cold but a thin, black button down shirt. A random passerby may have mistaken him for the angel of death, dressed all in black, dark, spiky hair and face as pale as the snow that […]
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a sampling of my “flash” fiction.
“If we have this conversation, it is going to end badly for you. I mean that.” The way he said it, so cool, so calm, sent shivers down his brother’s spine.
“I-” he started, his heart jumping to his throat and choking his words. “I’m sorry, Bill,” his eyes were glistening […]
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This is an excerpt from my current project, “Saint Impossible”. Here, the character, Jude, is retelling the events that led to him breaking away from the Neo-Nazi Skinhead gang he had been a part of since age 12.
We pick up in the middle of the tale, Jude’s guitar teacher, a black man, is being […]
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