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March 20, 2026
Crime Stories Tom Kropp

Dead Redemption

Pablo crept through the Honduras slum’s back alley with all the stealth he could muster. The alley was narrow and crammed with crates and dumpsters that stank of fish and rotting things. The dark clouds rolled overhead, fulminating with fury and rain pattered…
March 20, 2026
General Stories Matias Travieso-Diaz

Caught In The Act

As soon as sin was their choice, the cover of darkness was their preference. Lysa TerKeurst, Forgiving What You Can't Forget Sam was an usher at a movie theater. His daily duties included walking down the aisles of the theater after a screening to collect…
March 20, 2026
Crime Stories Tom Kropp

Dead End Job

Tony was a very muscular and good-looking Latino that had recently crossed the border of Mexico illegally. He was excited to immediately get a job for cash as a security guy at his cousin’s strip club. Tony was introduced to a very tall and muscular Latino…
March 20, 2026
General Stories Thomas Turner

Troubled Times

Written by:T J Tuner, Sonny Turner and Curt Chown- May 1985- Sonny, Tom and Curt are in the cafe. Sonny tells them that there are new people moving in on his floor. Sonny tells them ‘His name is Pete and he has a mechanic's shop on Kings Highway.’ They will…
March 20, 2026
Flash Fiction Tom Kropp

Bad Trick

Anita was a pretty Filipina stripper and prostitute working at a strip club when she agreed to go home with Andre. Andre drove them to a hotel routinely used by the strippers for dates with Johns. They made some small talk and his relaxed manner and smooth…
March 20, 2026
Poetry Markus J

5 Irish Limericks

there was a jolly old man from Dublin drank way too much and home he went stublin a river he tried to cross only to slip on the moss now laughter never stops from the ducklin` --------------------------------------- there was a pretty young las from Portrush…
March 20, 2026
Crime Stories Tom Kropp

Busted For Drug Dealing

My job selling dope was a rough trade. I had another shooting situation while carrying groceries and dope. Several thugs stepped out of the shrubs on both sides of me. It was dark out and the attack was so sudden at close range. They slammed me down in a…
March 05, 2026
Poetry Paweł Markiewicz

Eternal Dawn

The beautifully feathered, dreaming albatross told Mary the dreamiest story about hereafter: There are four amazing horsemen of the apocalypse: small wolf, a fawn, a wildcat, as well as a piglet. They will drink from four charming goblets of paradise, drunk…
March 05, 2026
General Stories Thomas Turner

The Trying Years

Summer 1984- A day after they dropped off their oldest child to Candy’ s parents house for the summer, they are on a train to Poughkeepsie, where Sonny’s mother resides after Sonny’s father's death. His mother lives with her oldest brother and her brother’s…
March 05, 2026
Poetry Markus J

The Aliens

the aliens with purple hair are invading from another world even though their hair might be fluorescence deep their ideology is shallow the seeds are sown tic toc and through time their bloom of freedom will grow will it be a flower or a weed and will the…
March 02, 2026
Horror Stories Tom Kropp

Werewolves & Demons

Scot and Shannon hesitated in the forest brush, watching a modern-day demon move across the clearing. The demon they were looking at stood approximately 14 feet tall; it had dark, scaled skin, but it was very female. It was actually darkly beautiful, with a…
March 02, 2026
Mystery Stories Markus J

Too Good To Be true

The 2/4 time beat of the metronome and the guitar`s sledgehammer assault emanating from the Marshall stack, filled the vast and lonely room . A full stereophonic sound played by a starry eyed dreamer, a forlorn figure with a Gibson in hand and hopes that rock…

It was supposed to just be a joke.  Really…

Josh, Pat and Casey drove over to the house of Rachel Vessing with the intent of play a bit of a joke on her 17th birthday.  The “mooning” of the attractive redhead while singing “happy birthday” was intended to in fun.   They were sure that Rachel won’t be offended and would take the gesture in the manner intended.

Hey, it was just a joke, right?  But unbeknownst to the boys, Rachel’s father, the Reverend Josiah Vessing, was at home that night and not at bible study as was usually the case for a Wednesday evening in the fall.  The widower was protective of his only daughter so what happened was not totally unexpected.  So the boys were surprised when both Rachel and Reverend Vessing opened the door.  Turned around and bent over, the boys thought that just Rachel was there when she gasped “oh my god” at the sight of their bare buttocks.  But they quickly realized their mistake when they heard a male voice boom out “what the hell??”

Fleeing off the porch while simultaneously trying to buckle their pants, boys might have been a bit too distracted to hear the reverend’s final comment to them as they ran off his property.

 

“That is not what I was talking about last week when I said that we all need to turn the other cheek…”

 

 

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Author’s Bio:   Tom Schmidt is a Chemical Engineer working in medical diagnostics in upstate New York.  He enjoys creative writing and has been published on www.short-story.me as well as on www.fartherstars.com and in www.overmydeadbody.com in the past.  He is currently working on the “Paul Garigan Crime Mysteries”, a collection of short stories centered around a Malibu based police detective which he hopes to publish in the future.  Tom can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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