Stories tagged “cops”
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A Humanity Break
She got up from her submissive bow to the porcelain goddess (also, today, the goddess of death), and stumbled to the mirror. She didn’t like the sallow-cheeked, red-eyed Raggedy Ann doll staring back at her. She had a moonstruck look on her face,...
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Score One for the Good Guys
The perp had led us down every back alley and side street in this whore of a City, but he hadn’t lost us yet. I didn’t get to be The City’s Top Cop by letting piece-of-shit purse snatchers get away. He reached a fence and started to c...
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On the Case
One eye was a bulging mass of orange and green, puslike with a golden sheen. The other eye was an empty hole of black, that is, it wasn’t there. But it wasn’t an overall bad look for the guy, just the kind of thing you wouldn’t want f...
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Roommate in A Co-Ed Dorm (homophone)
“Find it!” she screeched, throwing anything and everything up in the air. “Help me find it!” She threw clothes, blankets, pillows, books, cds, and even a table across the room. I stared at her. Living in a coed dorm on campus wa...
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Search (II)
Ethan seems to have hit him pretty hard, because next thing I know the man is knocked out cold. I pulled Ethan away before he could anything else. Nobody saw what happened, so we get in the car with the man still in the driver’s seat. “Chec...
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Rising
“It’s done, Malik,” I murmured. “The cops will be here any minute.” He glowered at me— crying? Pissed. “What are you going to do?” He bellowed. “What the hell are you gonna do without me?” I l...
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Partners
“You sure you want to do this?” Dennis sat quietly in the car. “Yeah, I’m sure,” Dennis finally said. Dennis did not want to get out of the car, he knew if he did he would betray his old partner from the 53rd. “Let&#...
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Sleeping with the fishes
“You trouble me Harry, you are bad news,” Li’l Joey said with a toothpick in his mouth. He stared at Harry who was now tied to a block of cement on the edge of the pier. “I didn’ do nuthin Joey, I didn’ do nuthin!...
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Suicidal Blues
Some talk behind my back. “He’s crazy,” they say, “reckless” or “psycho.” Those are the nice comments. In their way, they might be right, because, truth be known, I don’t care if I live or die, not that I...
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Flash
Flash. Red. Mason’s heart skipped a beat. Flash. Blue. He looked out the window and couldn’t believe his eyes. They had found him. He had been careful to cover his tracks, but clearly he had fouled up somewhere. He quickly filled a backpack...
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Final Boarding Call for Hell
What I would give to redo the past 24 hours of my life, I could have changed everything. You see, I have fallen victim to them. The Watchers. I guess I should explain a bit. The town I live in doesn’t have a police force. We don’t have crim...
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Gliding Over the Earth
The first figure steps from behind the tree. And then another. And another, and another, and another. Soon they were surrounding me. Easily 20 of them. But I knew there were billions more. They didn’t move at first, the black, gaping holes where ...
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Follow My Lead
Car doors opened. Car doors closed. I could hear engines dying until there were none left breathing. I dragged V out of the bathroom with me and crouched against the wall. I kept my hand just above her head as I stood up to a window. I carefully found ...
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Flowers and Caskets
I moved down the hallway, just ahead of Vanessa. “Get down,” I yelled. “Why are you freaking?” “Wait!” I zoned for a moment, picturing clusters of bloody bodies splattered on the hot asphalt. Rose petals, flower wrea...
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Up in Flames
Marybeth squirmed in the cold metal seat. The room was chilled and a uniform bluish-grey, save for where the sideways monolith of the one-way mirror reflected the scene. The table was a worn, beaten holdover from the 1970s, the faux-wood veneer chipped...
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The Truth About Drunk Driving
He never heard my anguished cry of warning. I realized too late the terrible danger he was in and shouted out as loud as I could, but to no avail. It came at the end of the worst day of my life. I admit it. I’d been drinking – I’d bee...
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Would've, Could've, Should've,
What I know now, that I didn’t realize thirty years ago, was that I could have run like hell. I totally could have gotten away with it. She never would have chased me. I was the only one in the store and she was the only employee. There is no way...