Night Shift

I opened my eyes to the beep-beep-beep of the alarm, and shut it off. I jumped out when I felt something land on my shoulder. I turned to see what it was.  An arm on my pillow, and a head of hair peeking through the covers. I yanked the covers off the bed to find …

The River

"Can you kill this guy?" Vince handed me a picture, "He's fucking my wife." Without saying a word I studied the man's face, folded the picture and shoved it in my pocket. "Thanks Jimmy," Vince gave me an envelope with five hundred dollars in it before he climbed in his car and left. I called …

Street Car Diner

"This looks good," he said out loud as he pulled in to the parking lot of the Street Car Diner. RJ drove all night from Chicago and wanted to eat breakfast before going to the Park. He'd only been to Pittsburgh once, and that was last July. For the short time he was here, RJ …