Tag Archives: noir

BRADLEY HARRIS: Detective Story

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I was sitting in my office cleaning my .38 when in she walked. High heels. Legs for miles. Lipstick.

“You Mickey Lewis?”

“That’s what the sign says, sugar.”

I cracked a deck of Luckies, dug out a jug of Jack.

Lousy time to be cleaning a gun. She shot first.

Bradley Harris is a Canadian freelance writer and editor. He is a two-time winner of the 3-Day International Novel competition, with ‘Ruby Ruby’ (Anvil Press: 1999) and ‘Thorazine Beach’ (Anvil Press: 2013). He loves and lives with his wife Liz Deeley and their fictitious dog Webley in Memphis, Tennessee. He despises and refuses to live with semicolons.

JOHN H. DROMEY: Clueless in Seattle

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“Who do you think is guilty?”

“I haven’t a clue.”

“Me neither. I imagine it’s situations like this that drive detectives to drink.”

“Shall we give it a try?”

The two penniless PIs pooled their pocket change and shared a cup of coffee so hot it nearly melted their straws.”

John H. Dromey has a short story in the forthcoming Candlesticks and Daggers: An Anthology of Mixed-Genre Mysteries edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson.

TIM SEVENHUYSEN: PRO-BONO PRIVATE EYE Chapter 1

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It’s Thursday. I hate Thursdays.

Thursdays are when the  dames come, sobbing, pleading, and looking for a pro-bono Private Eye.

On Thursdays, I say “know” more often than a philosophy student who just learned about epistemology, but without the “k” and the “w”.

Today, I surprise myself. I say yes.

CHARLIE DUNN: Tracer Bullet

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PIs’ apartments are worthless, but this was mine.

The thug inside had broken my seal on the door. The tape was like my services: cheap but effective. I felt less fear than the tape, though.

I relieved my holster of its lopsidedness.

The doorknob was cold.  Soon, he would be.

Charlie Dunn is a college student studying abroad in Japan. He also wrote Full Count.