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 light?
    But your lips don’t flicker with a [...]

    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 cops made a call.
    Joey gave up happily,
    and soon was locked up [...]

    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 so that
    the hardest 16-year-old lad
    runs in to his mum. The hint
    of someone [...]

    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 on the Isle of Man.  She would love to be a [...]

    Mystery/Suspense, Other