Have you ever been so depressed, not suicidal, because suicide is stupid, but so depressed that you'd do anything to get out of your life, if you only could? Have you ever wanted anything badly enough to walk away from it all? Maggie Nesbitt has. She's pregnant and her famous newsman husband isn'...
Carolina asked him as they were leaving the Rec Center. Sheila moved and she adjusted her backpack to make the ferret more comfortable.“My legs hurt,” Arty said, walking stiff legged, “but I liked it. I especially liked the part where he was talking about me.”“You?” She had to adjust the backpack...
Catherine’s. This was his first case in Robbery/Homicide and he wanted to impress his new partner, Joe Friday, who everyone who’d earned the right called Peeps, because early in his career he’d busted prostitutes by peeping in the windows of a motel they were known to use. These days prostitution...
Broxton said, rubbing sleep from his eyes as he smiled at the Indian Trinidadian behind the counter. “Do you sell breakfast here?” He was still half asleep. He’d been up most of the night talking and reminiscing with Warren. “We see a lot of Africans with shaved heads,” th...
So shiny, so sharp, so right for what I want to do,” the Ragged Man said.J.P. braced himself for the pain that was going to come, but instead felt only a small pin sticking sensation below his chin.“Open your eyes or I’ll shove it up into your brain.”J.P. refused, keeping his eyes closed with all...