Month: April 2015

By Teequan Lewis

It all started when little Timmy Howard was seven; he had been in elementary school for two years now and had yet to meet a single friend. He was an average kid with short black hair and deep green eyes. His mother was a bank clerk and his father was a forensic detective for the Acrewood Heights Police Department. Technically, Timmy was an only child but he was born a twin; his brother who was born first had failed to thrive after only two short months of life; because of their tragic loss Timmy’s parents were always overprotective of him. He was only allowed to play kick-ball with Amy Stewart, his next door neighbour who seemed to be particularly fond of eating her ear wax. Continue reading “Friends Forever: Part One “

An Alfred Mason short story by V. S. Cooper.

It was a dark and cold evening. I was just leaving the local pub, when I heard sirens blazing in the distance. Naturally, I went to investigate, only to be stopped by a constable. “Stop!” he shouted. “I can’t in good conscience let you through” However, a good detective always carries his credentials. “My apologies sir. Can’t have the riff raff come here, now can ya,” the man said in a rather jockular matter. “Go right ahead DI Mason,” said he, and so, I went, into the gloom of the unknown, unsure of what I would find.

Continue reading “The Bloody Beginning”