Stories tagged “hardboiled”

  • Black Books and Blacker Hearts

    I stepped from the car, the hills behind the flophouse rolling like the gentle curves of a sleeping frail, the pretty sight a stark contrast to my increasingly desperate situation. Rolling Mickey the Bee had turned up zilch. The man was a bunco artist ...

    • Author: naporeon
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Bird's Nest Surprise

    I mulled the whole sorry story as I slouched my way to the flophouse’s sad door. The botched gig was supposed to be a cinch, a real eggs in the coffee job. At least, that’s the tune Stuyvesant had been singing. I had known better, of course...

    • Author: naporeon
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Dead Rodians tell no tales (Part 1)

    Name’s Neesh, this here is Thuku, my associate. They called me that because as a youngling I wouldn’t stop wailing. Thuku and I were poor back in Rodia, lush and green place that idiot Coruscantis consider peaceful but I tell you, you don&...

  • Dead Rodians tell no tales (Part 2)

    We were paid good credits to silence this Tetsu scum called Greedo, we were going to give some of it to a Diollan, but Thuku here had a better idea. We Rodians do not like to share our bounties. Docking Bay Ninety-four there it was, the Corellian Corve...