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Category: Crime

2018 - bp coyle

2018 (bp coyle)

January 3, 2018 coylewriter

This is going to be the best year ever, I really believe that. I am up for my first parole…

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Posted in: Crime, Dark Humour, Relationships
Santa's Helper - bp coyle

Santa’s Helper (bp coyle)

December 19, 2017 coylewriter

I don’t kill Santas for fun you know. It’s not like I’m disturbed. To read what the tabloids say, you’d…

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Posted in: Adult, Crime, Dark Humour

I Can Hear You (story by R.C. Peris)

December 18, 2017 coylewriter

Four hundred and eighty-five days. Five hours. I’m counting. I might be wrong. I measure it with my sleep. When…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction
Afterlife - bp coyle

Afterlife (bp coyle)

December 17, 2017 coylewriter

It was my sister’s idea to visit with a clairvoyant, to make contact with my late wife. She said it…

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Posted in: Crime, Humour, Relationships
pretty pretty tales from jail i - r c peris

Spanx – Tales from the Jail II (story by R.C. Peris)

December 16, 2017 coylewriter

Her eyebrows were so pale they blended in with her ivory skin and gave her face a ghostly, alarmed look.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

Strange Country (story by R.C. Peris)

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Sanity is a strange country. Everything is right side up and manageable. You don’t get too mad there. You don’t…

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Posted in: Crime, Family, Fiction, Parenting, Relationships, Religion

Will The Sun Rise Tomorrow? (bp coyle)

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Tomorrow. Tomorrow all will be different. Tomorrow I’ll be a different person. I’ve volunteered for total personality reassignment. A complete…

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Posted in: Crime, Science Fiction
train ride - rc peris

Train Ride (story by R.C. Peris)

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Oh, I did not like that nurse. They assigned her to me. She was hired by the hospital administrator. She…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Relationships
unlovable - r c peris

Unlovable (story by R.C. Peris)

December 15, 2017 coylewriter

He thought he was unlovable. When he murdered my mother he thought he became unlovable. “I’m so sorry,” he thickly…

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Posted in: Crime, Family, Parenting, Relationships
job satisfaction - bp coyle

Job Satisfaction (bp coyle)

December 14, 2017 coylewriter

They gave me a gun, with live ammunition. I was refused by the army and the police, some crap about…

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Posted in: Adult, Crime, Dark Humour

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