The Three-Day Affair by Michael Kardos:A good writer spins a mediocre tale. While relatively well told, the story is quite unrealistic, featuring four fictional Princeton University graduates without the collective intelligence to open a sandwich bag. The characters are trite and unappealing, a...
was at best a half-truth. This was why, Officer Bauer explained to Melanie, the detective had arranged to speak with Magruder in the station’s “swing room”—typically the site of brief officer meetings and coffee breaks.There were two vending machines, soda and snacks, humming against one wall, an...
Streetlights were lit. Up and down Lincoln Avenue, shops and restaurants and apartment buildings still stood. Drivers took no notice of me. Neither did the pedestrians who walked under umbrellas or darted from awning to awning in the light rain. Away from the studio, Friday evening was unfolding ...