Tag Archive for murder

The Christmas Present

Looking back, I feel like I had a pretty good childhood. Every summer, my folks would take my brother, Jimmy, and me to the Rockies. It took us days to drive there, but we didn’t care. We got to stay…

The Book

I slammed the book closed. The clock showed 11:47 p.m. It had been a long day, very long, and I was sure my eyes were playing tricks on me. I was tired when I’d gotten home, but I really wanted…

The Suspect

“Any idea who killed her?” Detective Myer had an idea who might have killed her, her being Roxanne Westin. Roxy (as her friends knew her) was found in her apartment with a 44-caliber bullet hole in her forehead and scratches…

The Protest

The turmoil that led us to this moment was unintentional. We never set out to cause any harm. We just wanted to be heard. Of course, we also didn’t know the evil that lived in the university president. In high…

The Outage

She headed up the stairs. In every horror movie she’d ever seen, she always yelled at the young fools who went up stairs rather than just getting the hell out of the house. But here she was, going back on…