By the time Liora arrived at the pre-auction party, the air was thick with chatter, chuckles, and occasional Sieg Heils. She strode past tables of gowned ladies and tuxedoed gentlemen, climbed on the stage, and nodded at two armed guards who flanked the item to be auctioned. It was concealed in a cube covered by […]
Bang! Bang! Bang! Mary looked up from her mystery novel. Almost midnight. Too late for anyone reputable to be pounding a front door. She’d grown up in a family where late-night poundings happened too often: cops with warrants, thugs with threats. Her parents and brothers were all stashed in prisons. Mary was the family’s only […]
Promiscuous, that’s what the mayor has become. Power has unzipped his trousers. Libido has planted his love-stalk into too many pots. This morning he told me he’s running for re-election. A third term. Winning will doom him even more than he’s already doomed. I can’t let that happen. One suicide. Two abortions. Four exploded marriages. […]
