Archive for Mystery/Suspense

1. THE LAST RED LIGHT IN THE VALLEY • by Gavin Broom 10 Comments

   So while we wait at the red light, you stare across the valley that stretches out in front of us and you tell me you’re leaving.  I see the distance in your eyes and realize in every way that matters, you’ve already left. – What exactly have you left? I ask. What’s getting dumped at this [...]

   Mystery/Suspense, Sestina
   
   

2. METHOD TO HIS MADNESS • by Guy Belleranti 8 Comments

   Incessant interruptions drove Joey Cool berserk. To write his book he needed both time to think and work. So when his aunt happened by Joey bashed in her head. Then a peddler rang the bell and Joey shot him dead. Acquaintances and neighbors– Joey silenced them all. He did not stop his killing ’til SWAT [...]

   Humour/Satire, Mystery/Suspense
   
   

3. BRITTANY, FRANCE • by Joan 12 Comments

   These middle-class UK pseudo-professionals arrive with the evening class lessons the loud anglicized vowel sounds, the satnav, rough guide, ferry-crossing, gite-owning superior holidaymakers. I set my stage: the faulty alarm system, the cold bedroom, the discarded dressing gown from a previous tenant. The toys left on the floor. The scratchings behind the wall at night [...]

   Mystery/Suspense
   
   

4. A MERGING OF THE CENTURIES • by Joan 21 Comments

   A whiff of tobacco barely perceptible yet in these days of anti-social smoking, it jars. Walking on the coastal path, trodden by smugglers, we stop. Did someone slip to his death here? Did we slip, for a moment, into another time? Joan is a teacher of French and Head of Year in a Secondary School [...]

   Mystery/Suspense, Other