Category Archives: Action Fiction

“Nine Notches”

The beauteous Belinda Beauvais is standin’ in front of me, one hand on hip, the other holdin’ a pic of the late Jimmy the Finger Doyle. “It’s never been found, you know,” she says, battin’ the curly eye frames. “His … Continue reading

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“Sammy the Gat Bags a Jag–Ends up Time-travelin'”

“What tha….?” One minute I’m cruisin’ along in my just-purchased-at-auction 1960 Mark 2 Jag (a cool tool like the one Chief Inspector Morse drives in Netflix reruns); next minute, I’m hangin’ out the door of a broken-down Chevy dinosaur in … Continue reading

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“Shades of Sammy” (Prose Poem)

(See “Sammy Stories”, above, for more short tales.) I open-close the door to the dive on 29th Street and head-to-toe the crowd that’s swing-‘n’-swayin’ on the dance floor. My eye digitizes Izzy Cronin, my go-after guy. I slip-slide through the … Continue reading

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