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"He said follow the beat. Teddy thought, this is the beat, isn’t it?"
A man traces the unfortunate story of someone from his past.
A man picks up a piece of string, an act which unfortunately coincides with the loss of a mayor's pocket book.
Piecing together events after a touch of amnesia concerning the previous night, the clues begin to take a sinister turn. Contains descriptions of violence.
The only pleasure in the life of a lonely widow is the dismal view from her third floor New York boarding house.
When Yoana Hernandez decided to become a psychiatrist she never imagined one day her patients would be artificial intelligence.
Even though Miss Parker is nice, I don’t always like our visits. She has so many words while I have none.
Inside every gentle, affable guy - and nation - there is a raging beast.
On Christmas Eve in remote settlement cut off by heavy flooding, a group of men pay a visit on a deprived boy.
A boy takes revenge on his sister's favorite doll.
Berry liked movies. Correction, he loved them.
Dr. Vandermeer laughed. First to himself because he was a true capitalist. Then out loud because he simply wanted to.
"Once more," I said. "Once more. I'll try one more time. Then I'm going to find a job delivering FedEx packages or do yard work: something that can be done and I can see a result right then!"
‘Bloody hell!’ said Detective Constable Bright. ‘It’s a minefield!’
‘There’s more …’ replied Detective Sergeant Dawes with a grimace.
What happened at Devil’s Cape no longer surprised anyone. At least once a year, a body washed ashore.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
