Elwood woke up groggy and sore in a room he didn’t recognize. The pain in his right hand, red and thrumming like alternating current from a cattle fence, sobered him up. He pulled the injured hand towards his torso but was stopped short. A steel manacle cut into the carpal bones of his wrist, chain […]
They met in Strega Cafe, twenty minutes before closing. In the corner, a man with tan skin and gray hair propped himself up with a bottle of wine. In a booth, a pair of teenagers slumped low, halfway down each other’s throats. Metzger sat with his back to the wall, facing the door. He wore […]
Glen wasn’t her first office affair. She’d hoped he’d be her last. She was a toxic tort attorney, a fancy way of saying she represented towns poisoned by local industry. Her life was depositions, hotels, the office. She couldn’t remember the color of the walls in her apartment. The men available to her tended to […]
They’d died three times in the last six months. Billy brought them back. Tonight’s score was hard won, evidenced by the blood stain on the lapel of Trina’s jean jacket. “You were supposed to scare him!” she’d cried, Billy dragging her and the contents of the John’s wallet out of the alley. “Not everyone gets […]
