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The Family
I sat alone at a little café and the mafia boss walked in, “Why are you wearing such nice shoes?” he asked nonchalantly “You won’t be walking anywhere anytime soon unless my notebook is returned”. I looked up at him and pulled out the black notebook “Safe and sound, he’s a kid sir he didn’t mean anything by it.”
By Liam Fitzgerald5 years ago in Criminal
A Killers Match
He got to his feet and his shadow moved over her, while drops of cool water fell from his body onto her hot skin. She lay there almost entirely lifeless. If it wasn’t for the searing red cuts and blue bruises that flushed across her body, he’d have believed she was dead. But she wasn’t. Her eyes glared up at him with a rage that pumped through her entire body. Sweat streaming down her forehead as if she was still fighting despite her body not being able to move.
By Livvy Moore5 years ago in Criminal
Just Another Guy
He sat in his car in the office car park, his knuckles turning white from clenching the wheel so hard. She’d been a fiery one. They say that’s the case with red heads, but until last night he’d thought it was just a turn of phrase. Perhaps not. One thing was for certain, debating internally if the colour of her hair had an effect on her personality was not a priority. He’d made a mistake. A fatal one.
By Livvy Moore5 years ago in Criminal
Forget Me Not
My heart pounded as we entered the church. We staggered it so it wouldn’t be so obvious that we’d come together. Some of the others had attended for a few weeks prior so people wouldn’t be suspicious about the mass turn out. I hadn’t been worried though - religious types were always blind to the truth as long as it fit their narrative.
By Livvy Moore5 years ago in Criminal
The Harvest
"Mr. Wahid after gathering all of the evidence against you long with the witnesses that’s come forth, I want to firstly say that your acts of negligence and deceit are utterly shameful. You took an oath that you have failed to uphold, I sentence you to five years in prison, your license to practice medicine in the united states will be revoked"
By Mercedes Johnson5 years ago in Criminal
Forgetting
If you could help a criminal get away with something big for twenty thousand dollars, would you do it? That was the question I dealt with as I stood in my little shop, surrounded by my talismans and my herbs and my medicines and my incense and my black cat, Leona, and three burly men in suits.
By Ophelia Keane Braeden5 years ago in Criminal
Black Book of Secrets
I really screwed things up this time. My father said my college degree in writing would get me nowhere. Well he was wrong, it got me somewhere, straight to hell! Not only was I a disappointment to my father, but to my beautiful wife and daughter.
By Ann Burkett5 years ago in Criminal
