Tag: fiction
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Dirty Little Secrets
I just heard about Yvonne Lusk from Portville… she’s been missing for a week now? What a tragedy! I’ve never met the woman, but her husband Jimmy and I go way back. He and I did a few transactions together, when I was still “in the business”… if you know what I mean. Oh you…
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The Pastry Chef
I’m so furious! Bernadette told me what Ingrid said… that I’m a suspect in Yvonne’s disappearance? Why!? Because I’ve been taking sweets to Jimmy? That’s rubbish. I’m sure she failed to mention that I am a pastry chef. That’s right. I own the County’s prize winning bakery, and I deliver my delicious treats to a…
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Another side of the Story
Megalomaniac. That’s Ingrid for you. She always has to be in control. It’s gotten worse since Yvonne disappeared. Some of us call her Ingrid “Holmes” Meister, because she thinks she’s “Sherlock” or something. We’re all worried about Yvonne, mind you, and we want to find her as much as everyone else, but wouldn’t it be better…
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The Town Gossip
What do “I” think happened to Yvonne? Well, I’ll tell you what I think. A lot of women around here have been itching to get with Jimmy, and a couple of those ladies are awfully sketchy. Take Delores DeLorean. Yvonne wasn’t even gone two whole days before that woman started taking food to Jimmy. What a…
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The Mystery Unfolds
“Over my dead body!!” That was the very last thing that I heard Yvonne say. And the last time that I saw her before… well… before I didn’t. She was coming out of Leo’s Diner at the time. Her husband Jimmy kind of runs the place there. Those two were always fighting, so it didn’t…
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The Companion
A Short Story. After years of preparation, she was ready. The ‘perfect’ companion that she had always dreamed of would finally come to life. She wheeled the gurney into the laboratory, moving carefully to avoid a tangle of wires that littered the floor. Secluded in the east wing of her abandoned home, she kept the…
a sprinkle of faith 