How Sandy Met Robbie - Part 4
Robbie sighed as Sandy took his time looking around the bookstore. Sure, it wasn't as big as the ones they had back in Atlanta, but the squirrel was always happy to browse around any place that sold his favorite things in the world. There were always...
My Summer at the Hotel - Part 1
I guess I should probably start at the beginning of this strange saga that was my summer job. My name is Otto Schmelling, and I'm an otter from a small town in Iowa. I wouldn't say that my hometown was necessarily shitty, but it was definitely...
Born Bad - Part 5
To say that families varied in their values and sensibilities would not even begin to describe the social structure of the Mortenson family. The morning after Marv had committed his first murder, killing the crack dealing bear in the park after robbing...
Lowenstein & Shannon: Homicide Detectives - Part 1
**AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a new series that features Detectives Leo Lowenstein and Jay Shannon Jr., originally from my series "Notches on the Headbord". ** Detective Jay Shannon Jr. had experienced one of the longest days of his life. At age...
Notches on the Headboard - Part 7
Detectives Leo Lowenstein, Jay Shannon Jr. and Assistant District Attorney sat in the room the entire time Isaac gave his video confession, going into very explicit detail about the names of the females he killed, when he killed them, and where he...
Notches on the Headboard - Part 6
_Here he was again, alone on the playground with no one to play with. He watched all the other kids playing on the swings, teeter-totters, monkey bars, or just running around chasing each other. He sat down on the steps leading up to the school, a sad,...
Notches on the Headboard - Part 5
To the surprise of absolutely none of the cops present at the crime scene, no one in the area had any useful information to give the investigating detectives. The person who had found the dead ocelot was a homeless coyote who'd been looking for scrap...
Notches on the Headboard - Part 4
_ **"All they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license."** _ **- John Wayne Gacy, serial killer who murdered thirty-three young men and boys and buried them in the crawl space of his house.** Police work could be a very...
Notches on the Headboard - Part 3
**_"Even psychopaths have emotions, then again, maybe not." - Richard Ramirez a.k.a. "The Night Stalker"_** The ceiling fan oscillated slowly above the bed of Natasha Klimenko. The female panther felt all the tension now released from her body....
Notches on the Headboard - Part 2
The quiet pitter patter of rain could be heard all throughout the apartment building as thunder rumbled in the distance. A thick, gray mass of clouds hung over the city on that Saturday morning as Isaac Norton busied himself by dusting and polishing...
Notches on the Headboard - Part 1
The apartment looked like a tornado had ripped through it. Papers were scattered everywhere. Used paper plates adorned the coffee table, accompanied by empty pop cans. The tenant of this disaster of an apartment, a vixen named Cassie, had finally seen...
A Different Kind of Babysitter - Part 14
**AUTHOR'S NOTE: Martin's entrance song is "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits, which he uses because it was also the song his grandfather chose to enter the ring with. Also, the official music video has such great sports bloopers.** **_"A champion is...