The Fabulous Fourth
With the exception of Christmas Will’s favorite holiday was the Fourth of July. His only complaint about the day was that it was typically too hot to really want to do anything fun. Sure, Will could spend his afternoon off outside, grilling and drinking and shooting bottle rockets off his back deck at the squirrels, [...]
The Devil Does You In – Part 3
It was hotter than the spewing pits of hell on the fourth of July, and Clyde poured buckets of sweat out from all over in the effort to get to his mother’s house on time. He had 15 minutes to go, but the bags of bakery fresh brownies he picked up from the store on [...]
The Devil Does You In – Part 2
When Caesar got angry, he was a scary man to be around. Bad things tended to happen to people when he got angry; typically people died. He was angry the other night when he discovered these two meth heads – boyfriend and girlfriend it turned out – had been involved in the robbery of one [...]
The Devil Does You In, Part 1
Editor’s Note: Keep in mind this is the first draft of the novella and some parts in the future might be expanded or edited for publication. -KPM Frank Collier did not have any more time for delays on this particular project. Governments didn’t like it when there are delays, and he didn’t want to have [...]
Summer Reading
When I was a kid, I hated the idea of summer reading. It was an affront to everything summer represented for a child that is off from school, spending care-free days in the backyard and vacations with the family. As I’ve gotten older and wiser (and have been to college and gotten that pesky English [...]
Eyeball
“And you see this? That’s the cornea. That’s what you’ve injured.” The doctor was kind and pointed to the model and explained everything to Daniel slowly. Daniel nodded his head continually. “We’ve already learned about the eye in science class.” He stood there silently for a second, unblinking. “Here’s the bad news: you have to [...]
Playing Possum
If there was one thing Will couldn’t stand, it was wildlife rooting around his backyard, driving Roscoe crazy. He’d seen raccoons a number of times hiding in the bushes and shooed them away with a broom. But this later invader, the possum, was another animal entirely. The coons might have been bold, but the possums [...]
Don’t Touch
It was a crowded in the galleries of the High Museum in Atlanta. An afternoon full of school children who ran about with their teachers on field trips, the kind of hot, stinky afternoons Frank hated the most at the museum. Kids were all over with sticky bodies going everywhere just waiting to get their [...]
Cop Car
It wasn’t Hannah’s fault. She had looked both ways before she put the car into reverse and backed out. Half a second later a cop car that came out of nowhere pulled up behind her and illegally parked. She slammed on the brakes, but it was too late. Bumper met rear driver’s side fender at [...]
In a Pinch
His worst nightmare had come true. He wasn’t wearing green and all of the other kids were. He was a walking bulls’ eye for pinches. It was safe in class under the watchful eye of his teacher, but out on the playground it was war. St. Patrick’s Day at an elementary school can truly be [...]
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