Comments on 'Stella Starr and The Case of the Fledgling Flapper: Evie's Got a Gun'Stella turned around and found herself staring down the business end of a .38. On the other side of that heater was the elusive Evelyn Marzi.
"Stella Starr, Girl Detective," Evelyn drawled. "How'd ya' find me?" She wasn't even trying to hide her countrified accent anymore.
"Wasn't that hard. I Just followed the trail of broken hearts, empty bank accounts and dead sugar daddies, doll." Stella slid forward, slowly, as she spoke.
"I - I didn't mean to kill him," Evelyn cried, "His mitts was all over me…I tol' him I weren't that kinda' girl…"
"Tell it to Sweeney, sweetie. Your folks are paying me a load of scratch to drag your butt back to BFE. That's as far as my interest in this case goes." Stella was close enough to smell gun oil and cordite.
"I ain't goin' back, and no grade-school gumshoe is gonna' make me!" Evelyn's trigger-finger was getting itchier by the second. Stella was inches away; she had to act fast if she was going to end this confrontation without catching a _serious_ case of lead poisoning…2008-06-24T21:22:32Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/24096Comment on Stella Starr and The Case of the Fledgling Flapper: Evie's Got a Gun<p>Way to leave me hanging!<br />.<br />Thank you for creating this character.<br />.<br />I heart Stella, and I love how all of her enemies greet her by full name & full title. That’s just full of awesome.<br />.<br />Wait, does that make me one of THX ’s minions? Eesh.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/24096?basename=736162008-06-24T21:22:32ZAlexa ♥http://ficlets.com/authors/alexa1018Comment on Stella Starr and The Case of the Fledgling Flapper: Evie's Got a Gun<p>Oh, yeah, killer last line, like THX said. Very, very cool ficlet. I wouldn’t have even known that it came from a challenge. Great character development.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/24096?basename=482062008-03-13T21:12:28ZStovohobohttp://ficlets.com/authors/stovohoboComment on Stella Starr and The Case of the Fledgling Flapper: Evie's Got a Gun<p>Nice to see Stella back in action, and this one was dripping with…hope you don’t mind the use of the word currently being beat to death by my minions…awesomeness. Killer last line, in more ways than one!<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/24096?basename=473272008-03-11T01:22:46ZTHX 0477http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477