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  • New Sheriff In Town: The Necklace

    Myrtle stood quietly in the CSI office. The sleek gray walls were bare. Storage pods sat unopened. On a bare stainless steel table, there were a satchel. Myrtle turned to the lab tech, a 2000 Sutton model.“May I be of assistance, Chief TwoAxes?”“What’s your name?”“I am a Sutton forensic trained tech—““Please, what do you call

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  • Fancy a Game, Love

    With a thin cigar between her lips, Klara sank back in her rocking chair. Ruefully she glanced over at her long neglected knitting basket. Carols her angora winked at her and rolled over in the basket. Klara returned to her tablet. The world was going to hell in a hand basket. In her realm the

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  • The Case of the Gone Goldfish

    The time, approximately 5:30 am. The place, the mean tree-lined streets of Canterbury, CT. The crime is murder. This is my beat. I am Fluffy. I solve crime.“What’s the story, Snick?” I said.“Well I think—“ Snickers said. The chocolate Lab pup was quivering with excitement.“Cut the nonsense. Give me the facts. Just the facts.”Snickers ran

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  • The Detection Club

    The cold damp of November nipped at Jemina’s heels as she scurried up the high street. If only it wasn’t raining, if only old Mr. Oglethorpe hadn’t stopped her to discuss vegetable marrow recipes, if only the chemist hadn’t taken so long filling Mother’s prescriptions, if only she hadn’t spent twenty minutes trying on jumpers.

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  • New Sheriff in Town: Always Sherlock

    “You do know what a weekend is?” Myrtle said through her screen door.The android detective tossed her a comical confused look. “Does not compute,” Hacthet said. Then he started do the Funky Robot dance on Myrtle’s front porch. Myrtle opened the door and pulled him through.“I have neighbors.”“You wouldn’t think so from that outfit,” Hatchet

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  • New Sheriff In Town: Reunion

    Django twirled a stylus through his fingers as the holographic sun dipped into the holographic sea. Under her long black lashes, Myrtle watched him. She could still see the baby he had been in his face. In silence mother and son watched the sunset from their porch.“The HOA showed a real nice one tonight, don’t

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  • New Sheriff in Town: Day of the Lepus

    “Hold on, hold on get this then the sailor said, ‘I should have never,” the officer started guffawing at his own joke.“Officer.” Myrtle’s voice was a whip the group of police froze and melted away. She approached the jokester. Myrtle focused on the thin aquamarine horizon line that marked the cool blue white of the

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  • New Sheriff in Town

    Vast whiteness stretched out like a blank page. Myrtle sat upright in the hover sedan, afraid to wrinkle her new uniform. Looking out the vehicle windows, she was reminded of the vids of deserts back on Olde Earth. As a little girl she had liked the dizzying colors of the tropics and feared the dark

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  • Of Wolves and Angels

    Iridescent damselflies flitted across the scum green pond’s surface. Rafe thought of visiting his abuela in the Keys during summer vacations, days by the water, falling asleep in the sun. Images of Carmine floated up from the pond, his crooked smile. Rafe wiped at his eyes and aimed his rented boat towards the dock.Iridescent damselflies

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