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Category: Crime

The Sweet Way by Jon Barry

February 6, 2025 periswriter

Suicide was inevitable, we were born for each other. But how to, crawling through my years. Not what method, exactly:…

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Posted in: Crime, Dark Humour, Fiction, Mental Health Filed under: suicide

Ma by Risa Peris (Flash Fiction)

June 3, 2024 periswriter

I kept scratching at the wound with a scaly scab. Ma kept yelling at me not to scratch. “It’ll leave…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

Puffin (Story by Risa Peris)

July 28, 2020 Brian Coyle

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

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

“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

“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

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

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
bp coyle, brian

23 Years (bp coyle)

November 23, 2019 coylewriter

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

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