Here's a teaser from my short story, Predator and Prey, available
here at Amazon.com,
for a mere $.99!
“’Police Stymied by Latest Co-ed Murder’. Excellent.”
Stewart giggled over his Google results. The next headline made him smile even
more. Propped on his lumpy green sofa, he clicked on the link. His sweaty
fingers slipped on the laptop’s touchpad but the article opened.
Shrieks of laughter outside his efficiency
apartment crashed through his concentration. He winced. Swell. People. He
cranked his head to see out his big front window. A young couple lingered in
front of the vacancy across the narrow yard. Even worse. New neighbors.
There were two reasons he lived in this old
remodeled hotel: the absentee management and the quiet. Noise irritated him.
With the curtains gaping, those people
could see right into his place, too. He pushed off the couch and opened his
front door. There, hidden behind the mesh of his screen door, he stared
unimpeded across the narrow yard between the two single story buildings.
Their keys fell to the ground with a clank. For
some inane reason, this made them throw their heads back in giddy laughter. The
man picked up the key ring and fitted one into an apartment. The woman tittered
as she propped open their screen door. Her adoring eyes never left her
partner’s face. Shiny matching gold bands twinkled off their fingers.
Stewart stared through their uncurtained
window as the wife – rosy cheeked, with tiny bejeweled ears, long curly light
blonde hair, a curvy figure, and a gorgeous smile – put down her package in the
middle of the small apartment. She laughed again and spun in a circle. Her hair
lifted away from her body. Stewart raised his eyebrows at the way her breasts
swayed. Her companion, a tall, broad shouldered blond, looked at the woman, a
besotted expression on his face.
Stewart smiled and plucked at the corners
of his moustache. This had promise.
And a review, from Brian Enigma!
A quick flash of story that starts out feeling formulaic, but pays off
with a delightful and dark twist that I'm sure would make fans of Tim
Burton or Neil Gaiman happy.
Only .$99!
