There is a factory in Chongqing. It is unremarkable; there is nothing to distinguish it from the other factories nearby. Work…
A sequel to An Unremarkable Factory
There is a factory in Chongqing. It is unremarkable; there is nothing to distinguish it from the other factories nearby. Work…
A sequel to An Unremarkable Factory
He looks at her. Really LOOKS at her, for maybe the first time in ten of the last fourteen years of their marriage. He sees t…
A prequel to A Quiet No More
“Finally?” he says. “What do you mean, ‘finally’?”
“I ordered it months ago, and it was only supposed to take six to eight w…
A prequel to Order Now
“911, what is your emergency?”
He pulls the telephone receiver away from his ear and looks from it to his wife and back to t…
A prequel to A Terrible Mistake
“There’s a hand holding a gun in our mailbox,” he says again.
“Finally” she says with finality.
“What do you mean?” He hang…
A prequel to Infinity
“Who’s hand is it?” he managed to spit out. Confusion pouring out of his eyes.
She barely spoke above a whisper. “It doesn’...
A prequel to It doesn't really matter
He put the phone down as she turned.
And that’s when he knew.
That moment, that second, that grin on her face. It all culmi…
A prequel to A Minor Key
The two bodies lay there on the kitchen floor. One of them a male, the other, female. Both around their mid-thirties. They ar…
A prequel to Two dead bodies
Without even drying her hands she turned and walked out of the kitchen door, heading towards the mailbox.
He stood, the 911 …
A prequel to Return to Sender
He just stares at her with unseeing eyes. His mind tries to grasp meaning from her response. The phone rings in his ear but h…
A prequel to A Man in the Street
Finally? She said ‘Finally’, as if she expected it.
“What do you mean? Where’s the rest of him?” he blurted madly.
“The res…
A prequel to The Rest
His eyes dart from the phone frozen in his hands to his wife, a look of utter confusion sitting on his features. His wife, se…
A prequel to Great things
She heads out the door, and he stares after her, mouth half open, vaguely aware the phone is not ringing. She is back in the …
A prequel to Paper Trail
“Wait, what?” he asked, completely dumbfounded. Taking advantage of his stun, the walks over, and listens to hear that the ph…
A prequel to The Box
Huh. Well, that couldn’t be quantified as a success. Even by the most liberal of definitions.
He looked at the dead body. Th…
A sequel to Success and Failure
Thingoff tapped his ring finger in a tattoo on the counter below him. Yesterday’s assessment had worn him out. Finger calisth…
A sequel to Handing Down An Assignment
”... and hang up the phone,” she said, heading out to the mailbox.
She’d been expecting it? Why would she ever need a gun? U…
A prequel to Franchisement
He always considered his wife as kind of funny looking. Not in the slightly squint eyed sort of way, but in the not-quite-abl…
A prequel to What a pickle
He looks at his wife strangely. She looks back. They simply sit there staring at each other until he realizes she’s not actua…
A prequel to Lost and Found
Alright about the dude that got dragged to death by the car. him and my flying car salesman friend never got alon well. Dude …
A sequel to Death by Car
“Come on boy,” Harry said, holding his hand out in Buster’s direction, “What’s wrong?”
Buster rested his head between his pa…
A prequel to Release
“I want to move to Mars, and open up a bar,” Gregor said.
Matti inhaled deeply, and let a cloud of pale blue smoke surround …
A sequel to A Godawful Small Affair
“Sometimes,” Gregor mused, “all a guy needs is a little hope, right?”
“Sure,” replied Matti as he tapped the side of his gla…
A prequel to Make Me Jump Into the Air