Crime

Cherry

Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 15

I am filled with hatred. And the cold, exquisite pleasure of momentum. The map of bloodlines stretches across my laptop like a spiderweb. They are...

YNWA.

YNWA. I have seen this before but never knew what it meant. Then someone sent it to me recently and I still didn’t understand what it meant. I told...
Cherry

New Directions (37)

By lunchtime my eyes felt like someone’d kicked sand in my face. Three hours of staring at my PC screen scrolling through hundreds of messages trying...
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Cherry

If on a winter's night

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It was the stain on the kitchen wall and the new padlock that always stayed with Garda P.J. Crowe. How the metal gleamed from the pine shed door,...
Cherry

The Patrolman - 23

Taxi drivers who ‘do nights’ don’t need things spelled out to them.

Castrator.

The life of a castrato is an interesting one. The boys were castrated before their beautiful voices changed. This was done in Italy, so that they...
Cherry

Xion Island Carrier Chapter 14

The rain drew slow trails over Nash’s nerves like a jagged fingernail over skin. Barrow was under one of those relentless showers that made...
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Cherry

Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 13

I am filled with hatred. And the thrill of impeccable timing. I couldn’t have planned Aunty Laura’s reckoning better, though the moment she stole the...