Havana or Hell, part six
XI Kendall Duran's company, _EnDurance Games_ was registered to an address in Warrington, fifty miles west of Oakfort. I searched the Internet for the address of anyone named Kendall Duran, and found three by that name. One had a dentistry practice in...
Havana or Hell, part five
IX Katryn scratched the bridge of her nose, and placed a second engineer token on the R&D section of her map. "Your move!" she said. If my sister had assigned her researchers to develop a small project, such as a weapons upgrade, it wouldn't take...
Havana or Hell, part three
V "Tell me, Mr Kent Do you hear voices right now?" I nodded. "They are hiding in the traffic noise." "Can you describe them to me?" "Man and woman, both sound young and old at the same time." The psychiatrist and I were in a small office in the...
Havana or Hell, part two
III Some times, when I lie awake, I feel like I'm a tiny pinprick, floating in an endless void. It's a physical sensation, but not linked to any of the usual five senses, and the feeling disappears as soon as I open my eyes. It's accompanied by a...
A Tangled Ball of Yarn - Ep3
**A Tangled Ball of Yarn - A Dafydd Owen story - Ep3** Having agreed that whatever made Kelli vanish wasn't to be found at her office, Sarah was off closing out that side of the investigation. I was back in my usual business suit and was looking...
Why Me?
He notice that he was a phalynian "detective ohm. just so you know ahead of time. you'll likely be front page on both the local and galactic news. was it worth it?" "i'll be honest, it wasn't my intention.
PI Isaac Case #1 chapter 2
"you're the detective, pass though, please," was all she said before the screen turned off. even before entering, i could guess living in this area is expensive. following ms.
PI Isaac Case #1 chapter 7
"Isaac" a voice called, "Wake up, Isaac!" I shot straight up, the adrenaline waking me up. Niko was standing next to the bed. "Oh, Niko" rubbing the sleepiness from my eyes. He rarely come into my room. "It is time to wake up, do you even know what...
Cry Me a Murder, Part III - a Strange Crunching Underfoot
**A Strange Crunching Underfoot** _Previously: In that moment, a loud scream rang out from somewhere inside the hotel, and we froze mid-sentence. It was a man__'s voice, but it wasn't the howl of a human in agony, or a desperate wail of sorrow; It...
Cry Me a Murder (part eight): Mother Knows Beast
Some detective i had turned out to be. here i was, asking around and trying to ferret out the identity of the killer, while the solution had been in plain sight all along. there never was one murderer: everyone had been working together.
Cry Me a Murder (part seven): Only a Scream Away.
Hotel Kisanti was without electricity. The lights were out, the whooshing of the ceiling fans slowed and rattled like the exhale of a dying man. The industrial freezers thawed, endangering the shelf-lives of a thousand dollars' worth of ice cream. The...
Fallen Angels, Part Eight - Kisses From a Demon
Chapter Seven Kisses From a Demon Like a rare bubble of clean air can rise to the surface of a festering mire, a wave of clarity washed over my mind, if only for a second. _Please,_ I begged some uncaring god, _don't let me do this. I don't wish to...