SHE WAS STANDING OUTSIDE THE PIZZA PARLOR when the old man slid his Cadillac into a parking lot, almost clipping another’s fender before the engine spluttered to a stop. He exited his car with a cantilevered motion, using his cane, the door jamb, and the rocker panels as a support. In the time it took him to close the door, turning like an old screw in a rusted shaft, she […]
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Jenean McBrearty | The woman in blue
FEW PEOPLE REMEMBER WALTER NEFF. Why should they? When the story came out that he and Phyllis Didrikson conspired to kill her husband to collect on a double indemnity insurance policy, the Daily Tribune reported it on page eighteen of Tuesday’s edition. That kind of notoriety wouldn’t deter a twelve-year-old. That’s how old David Kelly was when the photo of Phyllis caught his eye as he was cleaning his grandmother’s […]
Clare Chapple | Free parking
I GOT ANOTHER postcard from him this morning. From Jim, that is. He’s gone on holiday of all things. All those years we’ve worked together and he’s never had one day off, not one. Except for Christmas of course, and New Year – but the car park’s shut anyway those days. No point turning up when there are no punters to pay you. Jim always says we have the best […]
Matthew Harrison | Anything
The People Manager was so out of Jack’s class it hurt him to look at her. She was strikingly beautiful, thirtyish he thought, in a brown silk dress that shimmered as she spoke. And now she was looking at him. “So that’s it,” she concluded. “Anything goes.” “Anything?” Jack repeated numbly. He hadn’t been paying attention. “Anything,” she said. Jack hadn’t met her before, but that meant nothing in so […]
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