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Category: Crime

Puffin (Story by Risa Peris)

July 28, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

It was more shadows than complete darkness. I could see outlines of things if they were very near me. I…

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Posted in: Crime, Dark Humour, Fiction

Flies (Story by Risa Peris)

July 21, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

Around midday, the sky darkened with flies. They filled the sky with annoyance and doom. Maybe this was the end.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Folklore, Horror

The Soul (Story by Risa Peris)

June 28, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

“No, you dimwit. Shirts go to the left and pants to the right.” The aging, overweight woman in a regulation…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

The Gathering (Story by Risa Peris)

June 15, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

“Have you found Braxton?” I was tearful and shivering. The interrogation room I was in had a constant flow of…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Horror, Marriage

The Body (Story by Risa Peris)

March 17, 2020 periswriter Leave a comment

I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Social Issues

Psalm One (Story by Risa Peris)

February 15, 2020 Brian Coyle 1 Comment

He was a scornful man and I sat in his seat. I was in a den of thieves and drug…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

An Angel (Story by Risa Peris)

February 7, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

It was a thin soup with some kind of strange looking dumplings in it. Angelino was expecting something unctuous and…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Religion
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23 Years (bp coyle)

November 23, 2019 coylewriter Leave a comment

Once they were sure all of the mourners had gone, detectives Molloy and Hughes approached the open grave. Molloy took…

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Posted in: Crime, Family

Dawg (Story by Risa Peris)

November 20, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life? Ah, if thou issueless…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

In Honor of the Day of the Dead (Story by Risa Peris)

November 1, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

  Dita and the House of Faces Dita lives in an old and quite dusty Victorian mansion, stuffed precariously on…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Family, Fiction Filed under: family, fiction

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