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High Heels Clicking Halloween Night

September 22, 2021October 27, 2021 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1575 Views 8 Comments dark park, Halloween night, high heels, lady, murder, Phyllis Doyle

High Heels Clicking … I will never forget the sound of her high heels clicking on the sidewalk that Halloween

Creative Writing Halloween Short Story

Murder Halloween Night Near the Swamp

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2038 Views 8 Comments Halloween night, murder, Phyllis Doyle, Sheriff, small town, trick-or-treating

Murder Halloween Night … It had been a quiet day in the small town of Meekerville. Some folks were

Fiction Novel Excerpt

A Sackful of Woe (The Wormhole Way Station)

September 1, 2019September 2, 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann 1144 Views 2 Comments Jamie Lee Hamann, murder, Science Fiction, Series, Way Station, Wormhole

A Sackful of Woe A Wormhole Way Station 1. Somyan, long known for his clever writing style, found himself in

Creative Writing Halloween Short Story

Halloween Hacker of Grays Hill

October 23, 2018September 21, 2019 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1480 Views 1 Comment ax, cold case, Halloween Hacker, machete, murder, Phyllis Doyle

Halloween Hacker of Grays Hill The conclusion to Wicked Halloween Haunts Still ~ Lyle Banks has been the

Creative Writing Essay

Lying Gets Us Nowhere

July 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1738 Views 4 Comments capable, choice, essay, lying, murder, protection

We are all capable of anything… Circumstances amass as with our panic, when we hastily choose and create more havoc

Free Verse Poetry

Grace Brown Forlorn Love and Murder

April 21, 2018April 21, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1549 Views 2 Comments Adirondacks, Chester Gillette, Grace Brown, lake, murder, poem

Grace Brown Forlorn Love … Grace Mae Brown (March 20, 1886 – July 11, 1906) Why do you cry Grace

Creative Writing Short Story

Sanctuary Cities Welcome and Protect Illegal Aliens

December 16, 2017December 17, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1534 Views 2 Comments deported, illegal aliens, murder, rape, sanctuary cities

Sanctuary Cities … The group of six men got as close as they could to the border guard without being

Creative Writing Short Story

He Just Stood There – Watching the Events Unfold

October 17, 2017 R J Schwartz 1751 Views 3 Comments Cat and mouse, Crime drama, following, murder, Professional, victim

He just stood there. His body rigid, like the trunk of a giant redwood tree, despite the needle-sharp rain ripping

Creative Writing Short Story Uncategorized

Just Who’s Insane in an Asylum? Part 3

May 14, 2017May 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1519 Views 2 Comments asylum, ghosts, Jake, murder, short story, sinsanity

Jake awoke in his bed, but there was little light and he looked toward the curtains; they were in tatters.

Creative Writing Short Story

Just Who’s Insane in an Asylum? Part 2

May 14, 2017May 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1968 Views 2 Comments asylum, delusion, ghosts, insane, murder, short story

Jake slept, a dark and numbing sleep that kept him out until the following morning. Doctor Standish had even given

Rhyming Verse

Murder of Passion

May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 Paul Neglia 1580 Views 4 Comments body, crime, dissociation, emotions, manipulation, murder, passion, pathological

Unrequited love is so cruel, an evil crime of passion’s fuel. This fiery passion I had known a well

Creative Writing Short Story

The Lost Town of Higginsville

January 28, 2017January 28, 2017 Will Starr 2357 Views 8 Comments murder, railroad, short story, squatters, town, Will Starr

The Lost Town of Higginsville No one had ever seen a whole town just disappear along with all its

Epistle Poetry

A Raw Consequence

December 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1104 Views 2 Comments consequence, murder, no escape, once loved, poem, responsibility

As he cried, in lowly stature, he could not forgive himself, for what came from him was foreign, unexpected, and

Free Verse

Death on a Cold Winter Day

November 15, 2016 R J Schwartz 1902 Views 5 Comments bullet, death, hit, murder, winter

Death on a cold winter day Swirling winds carry the news A body lain on hardened ground Plummeting temperatures Nightfall

Fiction Flash Fiction

The Hanging Tree: A Historical Flash Fiction Story

June 16, 2016October 25, 2016 Chris Mills 4352 Views 7 Comments murder

Author’s Note: I made some revisions to this story on 25 October 2016 which should make it much easier to

Short Story

Vinegarroon

May 21, 2016January 17, 2017 Will Starr 3453 Views 24 Comments Indians, murder, scalped, small town, western

1 Bandy Wilson sat back on his heels and pondered the situation. The bones were at the bottom of a

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