I'd heard that in various iterations since I was wee. Didn't faze me when Mrs Burke said it to me in first school, and it sure as shite didn't faze me now. When he said it, DS McDonald paced the floor, his shoulders hunched over. He probably thought it made him look like Vic Mackey. He looked mor...
When I checked on Beale, he was bucking the odds by making it through to the final table. Normally Beale was dead money in the tournaments. With his temperament and tendency to go on tilt, he was better suited to the no-limit tables than he was to the comps. While I waited, I did another fifty on...
Gone was the smooth-talking Dapper Dave Randall the punters all knew and loved and the fish staff looked up to. This was the old Dave, one I hadn't seen in the flesh for a good long while, one that stood there by the closed door and stared at me for a good minute or so before he started talking. ...
WAR CHRONICLES: Never Say Good Night in Saigon By Greg Peppard, Jr., 1st Sgt., US Army (Ret.) (discovered by Jimmy Callaway) San Diego, California, is a big military town, and lifelong resident JIMMY CALLAWAY has met many retired soldiers in his time. Greg Peppard, a grizzled former Army sergean...
It’s me.” It was late, getting on for later, but they were in. Steve’s Land Rover was parked out front. If the car was home, then so was he. Steve was the kind of bloke who never strayed too far from his beloved Land Rover, and if he was in, then Ailsa was probably somewhere near. She didn’t have...
As he struggled back to the world, he was positive he could hear a baby. He opened his eyes to slits, breathed out and felt his entire body seize up with pain. The sound of the baby faded into silence. It hadn't been a life-or-death beating, but that didn't mean he was going to run home. He had t...