Powder, Pills, Profit
by
Dr. Vandermeer laughed. First to himself because he was a true capitalist. Then out loud because he simply wanted to.
- Pages:
16
- Age Rating:
PG
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Brain Trust
by
My cousin Dedrick and me are farmers. We don’t own no land and most likely never will, but we use land that’s been forgotten by its owners or maybe it was never owned other than by the Cherokee in them olden days.
- Pages:
10
- Age Rating:
PG

The Silenced Witness
by
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
- Pages:
11
- Age Rating:
PG

The Hike
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A lone sedan entered the parking lot of the processing plant and went dark. A tenebrous figure emerged from the shadows, sheathed in tactical garb and gripping an M-4 carbine. He loaded a magazine and charged the weapon.
- Pages:
8
- Age Rating:
15

Our First Date
by
A warmth filled my chest, an immense sense of pride that you were here. With me.
I'd only met you properly for the first time this morning. Of course, I knew you before then.
- Pages:
4
- Age Rating:
PG

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The Flying Stars
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The last crime of the notorious thief Flambeau was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime.
- Pages:
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- Age Rating:
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