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Trophy Wife
By John L. Campbell Everyone said she was crazy to marry Dean. The newspapers called her Cooper IV. Her mother, for whom marrying money was the greatest achievement a woman could hope for, expressed her fears and reservations. Her girlfriends told her she was not only crazy, but stupid. Even that detective from the District [...]
31Jul2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedTen Rules of Walter
By John L. Campbell Walter followed the rules. He’d been doing it his entire life, careful to stay within the lines, keeping a low profile and staying out of trouble. It didn’t make him particularly happy – that wasn’t a state he experienced often – but it avoided a lot of hell, and he supposed [...]
31Jul2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedDance of the Yard Apes
By John L. Campbell Merrill Travis dropped his two-hundred-fifty pounds into a brown easy chair, cracking the framework again. He threw his weight against the back, and the footrest squealed in protest as it snapped up. Merrill propped his feet up, wiggling one toe through the hole in his right sock, grabbed the remote with [...]
3May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedChained
By John L. Campbell It was one of countless failing farms in the West Virginia hill country, fields lying fallow and gone wild because there was no money for planting, a rusting tractor sinking into the earth because there was no money to fix it. The barn had collapsed in the center, looking like an [...]
6Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSalty
By John L. Campbell Cornelius LaBauve was eighty-seven and missing somewhere in the Louisiana bayou. The passenger in the big pickup was worried that the old man had run into a local myth, but the driver had his money on liquor-induced drowning or gators. Cole Doucet arrived at the LaBauve place around eleven in the [...]
4Mar2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued