A piece of short fiction – based on a prompt to examine place, setting, and story. The meeting ended and I took off my peadset. I learned back into my chair, looking at the clock. I had a few minutes before my next call. With a quick turn, I prepared to stand up out of …
The bell over the door dinged. A couple of older couples were at booths on opposite sides of the diner. The man who entered the door asked, “Are you still serving?” The woman near the cash register responded, “It’s only 7:30. We got lots of hours of pie service left ahead of us.” She bent …
I love a good murder mystery. The earliest books I remember reading were Boxcar Children stories, which I cannot really remember anymore. I’m assuming they didn’t have too many murder mysteries in them, but it began my love of the genre. I moved to the Encyclopedia Brown series after that with even more mundane mysteries …