The day they let Jules out of prison, two guards escorted him to meet the warden. The warden’s wood-paneled office was much bigger than the cell where Jules had spent the past five years of his life. The warden was a large man with a square jaw and skin tanned the color of mahogany. Jules […]
Earle watched the blood in the water drift away like a line of campfire smoke spread thin by the night wind. The crimson ribbon washed down the creek, twisting around the stones as though it had a purpose and couldn’t be delayed. There was Hell to pay and blood settles its debts in fast time. […]
Micky told me once that whenever he was about to perform an execution he took three deep breaths. Said it calmed him down, levelled him out. Micky’s an old guy now and he doesn’t do much killin these days, but he’s got all this advice that you only get though forty-plus years in the game, […]
Bobo Trufant walked out of our precinct humming Abba’s “Mama Mia” after he’d fed the children he’d stolen to alligators. We all knew it, though the DA thought the presence of Bobo’s showtunes posters in the kiddie porn photos we found online to be circumstantial. We just didn’t know what to do about it. The […]
“The usual?” The reverend made his habitual over the shoulder peek before handing over the flask and a handful of bills. He overpaid for his tin of whiskey to ensure discretion. Judging by the looks he had been getting, he was not getting what his money’s worth. It was still better to stay off the […]
It was a Friday and the boys were skipping class. It was cold out that morning. Each breath was this plume, this knocked-sideways mushroom cloud. “What about your neighbor?” Chester nodded to the thirty-something man passing by. “He’s a dick anyway.” Rocky looked up and down the street for anyone who might be watching. It was […]
I was busy breaking some guy’s knuckles the night my brother died. You see, when people gamble, sometimes they end up owing more money than they can pay. To the wrong people. I work for those people, so needless to say I work odd hours. Anyway, the night Danny overdosed on heroin and alcohol was […]
Early in that summer of 1905 we came west on a train, Ma, Pa, my sister Pearl and me. Pa worked as a clerk at my grandpa’s store in Ohio. He said he wasn’t ever going to get anywhere being a store keeper. Ma said he was just restless by nature. That he was a […]
Curly was working the Bull Ring market when it happened. Looking for marks, punters too intent on their apples or cabbages to notice him dipping into their pockets and bags. It was easy money. Lots of old people, lots of people they liked to call ‘vulnerable’ these days, all shopping at the market because it […]
The man known as John Loomis stood in the kitchen, looking out the window at the rainy night. He’d have to mow again soon. That time of year. He swirled the two cubes and raised the last of his drink. He froze with the glass on his lips. Call it a sixth sense. “I always […]
Sidney Pitt never expected to be gunned down in a whorehouse, but it looked like that was how he was going to meet his demise. “It’s just a cow!” Sidney called down from the second floor window of the Eternal Rest Bordello, his muscles tying themselves into knots. His dusty, discarded pants and gun-belt were […]
We are please to announce a new novella series we are calling One Eye Press Singles and its flagship title FEDERALES by Christopher Irvin. Singles will have a quarterly release starting with Irvin’s FEDERALES on March 4th, 2014, and followed with June, September and December releases for titles to be announced in the coming months. […]
