In this short story, Jim comes home and tells his wife, Joanie, that he just lost his job. Jim has been depressed and miserable for the past few years and it is now starting to drag his previously bubbly wife down with him. He has refused therapy several times. Joanie has given up. They decide to end it all with a double suicide, but things don't go exactly as planned.

In this short story, the Cold War simmers as the Russians develop a hallucinogenic drug that allows them to hypnotize, train and brainwash a group of assassins They implement a precise plan to murder the President of the United States as the world watches!

This gothic horror short story takes place in Charleston, South Carolina in the years following the Civil War. At that time, the area was transformed as the plantations failed without the slaves to do all the work. One man who profited from the war was the local funeral director. You could say that war was good for business. He eventually became the choice of the higher class of former plantation owners when it came time to inter their dearly departed. Every few days he would bury a rich, ...

In this short story, Mildred, a stressed CEO, discovers that her husband, Roger, is cheating on her. This news sends her into a rage, and she forces her security chief, George, to agree to murder Roger. When George decides to double cross both Roger and Mildred, things don't go quite as planned in this modern-day noir tale.

In this short story, Trish tells her lover, Marie, that she suspects that her husband, George is having another affair. When she confronts him, he denies it, like he always does. A few weeks later he comes home falling-down drunk and tells Trish that he broke it off and that it is over forever. The next day George is arrested for murdering his mistress. After he is convicted because of overwhelming evidence, all of their lives are changed forever!

This short story begins as Sal DeMarco is eulogizing his twin sister after her suicide.Sal seldom spoke until he was a teenager. It turned out that his silence was his own choice. He preferred to listen. His sharp listening skills developed into deep analytical skills.He had a feeling that something just wasn't right with his sister's death, so he applied his skills to get to the real story!

Short Story - A college student's deeply-seated fear of clowns leads her to solve a dangerous mystery while babysitting a house full of children.

In this short story, Eileen is a young single mom with her own thriving massage business. Eventually, she uses her business as a front to hide her secret life as a high-priced mob assassin! All is going great, until she rubs out the wrong guy!

In this short story, just after the turn of the last century, in a small, warm rural home, the Buckley family are joyously preparing for their Christmas Eve dinner. As they gather at their feast, a travelling stranger knocks at their door and they welcome him at their festive table. What happens next will scar their Christmas memories for the rest of their lives!

In this short story, George is walking on the beach with his four year old granddaughter when he pranks a gathering of Middle Eastern people by adding himself to the back of their group photo. When this group sets off a bomb in Philadelphia, and some of the terrorists are killed, the photo on a dead man's phone soon falls into the hands of the media and the FBI, who identify him as the mastermind! George is hunted by the FBI in addition to the remaining terrorists, and they all converge on...

This is a short story -- In a sleepy beach town during the off-season, a prominent businessman from the city is found stabbed to death in his bed. All the doors and windows in the house were locked from the inside! The baffled police called attorney and part-time consulting detective "Silent" Sal DeMarco to help with their confounding conundrum.

In this short story, Jade, Bryan and Jack are college students that scheme together to make some extra money to defray their expenses. They come up with a foolproof method to burglarize the homes of older wealthy folks that are attending society events. Their plan runs like a well-oiled money machine, until they break into a house while children are at home!