Archive for Mystery/Suspense
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THE LAST RED LIGHT IN THE VALLEY • by Gavin Broom
10 Comments
So while we wait at the red light,
Mystery/Suspense, Sestina
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 [...]
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METHOD TO HIS MADNESS • by Guy Belleranti 8 Comments
Incessant interruptions
Humour/Satire, Mystery/Suspense
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 [...]
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BRITTANY, FRANCE • by Joan 12 Comments
These middle-class UK
Mystery/Suspense
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 [...]
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A MERGING OF THE CENTURIES • by Joan 21 Comments
A whiff of tobacco
Mystery/Suspense, Other
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 [...]
