Big Truck in the Garden by Brian Beatty
Cale was sitting on the front porch of his crumbling farm house, plunking away on a banjo, when up pulled a pair of sheriff’s cars without their lights or sirens going. “Lucky me!” Cale hooted. “This must be a social visit. Sorry I’m out of iced tea, boys.” “Just looking into a missing persons lead,” […]
What Happened Next by Brian Beatty
Cards, cash and a mountain of poker chips covered the round table between them. The fancy pistol atop the pile of everything had been emptied of bullets as a precaution — but not the guns the men had aimed at each other under the table. Those were loaded. “Now what?” the fat man asked. “Now […]