Blue Mask hated beef stew and hated Birdie for making it. He knew it meant he’d end up having to run out to McDonald’s later. Between that and the Rolex setback, it would put him that much further away from being able to move out. He closed the door softly behind him. He could hear Birdie in the ...
He happened to have a few bricks rumbling around in the back of his SUV, left over from a landscaping project. He always kept twine in his glove compartment. The idea developed from there. He debated whether to even bother but eventually decided it couldn’t do any harm. It...
Oh, eventually they’ll do the mass Facebook blast. But there are some people who need to know first, and there’s a certain order in which they must be informed: her parents, his parents, the best girlfriend, and so on. The hope is that no one high on the list slips up and tells someone who’s lowe...
I was still two blocks away when I came to a police barricade, but I could already see her building. It was mostly untouched, except for the upper right quarter of it, where Miss B lived. That part was streaked by black scorch marks and still steaming slightly. It looked soggy. The street outside...
If I had given it a second’s thought, I probably wouldn’t have gone after her. Much like the proverbial dog chasing the car, I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught her. But I wasn’t thinking at that point, just reacting. I burst into the backyard, which was small and fence...
With a clipboard on his lap and an eye on his car’s clock, he tracked her from house to house, logging every movement. Her consistency was remarkable. She tackled the streets—and the houses on those streets—in the same order. Her time for each road never varied by more than a few minutes. Her tim...