Stories tagged suspense

Moriarty lets her hair down

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He did not hear her enter the room...

Blood on Her Hands

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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.

Lover's Spat

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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”

Blackbeard's Blood

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I don’t care if they find the damned place. I don’t care one fucking bit.

Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig

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Gladstone called him a ‘goddam nihilist’--

Lunch at Luigi's

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Identification both ways was BooBoo, case sensitive.

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.

Broke Neck, Lost Leg?

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"What?"

Playing hurt

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Rose is back. Rose is back.

Sometimes the bear eats you...

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...something darkly malevolent looming above him...

Second Hand

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“Okay, here is a wild idea. Let's each choose outfits from the second hand store for the other to buy and wear to a bar for a drink..." Famous second to last words?

The Fixer

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When someone asks me what I do, I tell them that I am a fixer. I fix things. There is nothing that cannot be fixed. Will it ever be as good as new? That is subjective, but I will fix it for you.

A Special Assignment

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In the graph of life or death, two axes will inevitably meet. Will it be as jarring as two sharp and well-hewn axes colliding?

Dead Man's Pockets

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“You can’t fool us,” the woman with the red scarf said as she waved the stick in Tonio’s face. “You and your friend back there must have killed this man last night by running him over with a truck."