Tic, Tic, Boom! by Michael O’Keefe
Tic realized on the way to the Tack Room that he probably wasn’t going to pry his five grand from Bernie “The Bug” Kowakalski.
Tic realized on the way to the Tack Room that he probably wasn’t going to pry his five grand from Bernie “The Bug” Kowakalski.
Money has a smell all its own. A flat scent of eager hands and disappointed dreams. Miriam loved the smell of cash. Not the flat crisp hundreds the ATMs spat out but the odor of well-worn bills. The battered twenties and tens that made their way through the club, eventually landing in piles on the … Continue reading GLASS CEILING by Frank Quinn
A warm breeze swept along the water as the old lady and her hulking adult son wheeled the food cart onto the river path. A puff of steam rose from the cauldron as the old woman removed a sweaty lid and stirred the broth. Her gigantic son set up a folding table, and carefully organized … Continue reading All That Nighttime By Morgan Boyd
At 9pm the tiny red led light on Deuce’s answer machine flares up & the machine goes beeeep but Deuce don’t reach for the phone he just lets it run. He’s lying smacked out his skull on the bed in his 2nd floor flat wearing just his leather bike trousers. The teevee screen is flickering … Continue reading The Savage City by u.v.ray
“Baker one oh three, Baker one oh three and a backer, respond to a disturbance at 1301 N Trenton Circle,” crackled over Jake Dillon’s radio as he sat slumped in the driver’s seat of his police cruiser. Pausing the movie on his laptop, Jake closed the lid and slid it into the backpack in the … Continue reading Judge and Jury by Jeff Dosser
by Matt Dukes Jordan Mike Malloy is an Atlanta-based screenwriter, actor, and director. While in college he wrote and published a book on Lee Van Cleef. He’s a true aficionado of 1970s tough-guy cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, the little-known films directed by David Carradine, and much more. His documentary, EUROCRIME!, has been included in numerous film festivals and was … Continue reading Mike Malloy – Thoughts on Tough Guys, Working as an Indie Filmmaker, and His Documentary on the Eurocrime Films of the Seventies
Bootsie Goldstein. Fuck you Bootsie! Who in the Western Hemisphere smuggles ivory? Who does that? Doesn’t matter. It’s over now. My poor crew. My crew of buccaneers was a tight machine of nimble little thieves. Over the years I built and worked
It hurts!
Through the light rain the black limo sped along the long ribbon of empty asphalt. Headlights knifing through therain and gathering dusk with narrow beams of white/yellow intensity. The countryside. A few miles outside the city.
The corpse at the bottom of the pool lies on her back, illuminated like a ceramic mermaid decorating an aquarium. Her serene face tips up, seeking the surface twelve feet above. Her pale, naked limbs look longer than they should, distorted through the water’s strange lens. Her lurid red hair gently snakes out from her … Continue reading Shake Moves On by Pamila Payne