Jul
30
Cassie: Part III Usually tonight was Cassie’s Christmas, but this year it was a true nightmare. In the two years she had lived in New Orleans, she had never had competition. In fact she wasn’t quite sure how she had known it when she saw her, but she just did. It had been nothing short …
Jul
27
Viktor: Part IV Faster than he would have anticipated, Viktor was in New Orleans. He had hitched a ride with a rather beautiful woman trucker in El Paso. He still couldn’t figure out what she was doing driving a truck and every time he tried to bring it up she would get silent. She took …
Jul
26
Scarlett: Part III Scarlett had been in New Orleans for over a month and she loved every moment of it. She couldn’t have asked for a better situation. Her job was going swimmingly. The fact that she always wore gloves had never raised any suspicion. Even under her work gloves was always a pair of …
Jul
25
Cassie: Part II During the day she would work and at night she would hunt. She frequented herself at bars up and down Bourbon Street during big events. It was usually crowded enough to lure an attractive, unsuspecting, usually drunk, young man to “escort” her home. Sadly enough, none of those men ever made it …
Jul
24
Viktor: Part III The investigation started and ended quickly, at least it did for Viktor. When two people living right next door to each other suddenly disappear, it raises quite a commotion. There were news cameras, police, family and friends surrounding building twenty-one of the Sunset Park Apartments for about a week after it was …
Jul
23
Scarlett: Part II The taxi dropped her off on the corner of Dauphine and Toulouse in the French Quarter. It had taken her two years to work her way down to Louisiana. She should have made her transition more quickly, but there were things that needed to be taken care of. There was no real …
Jul
21
Viktor: Part II The rain that splattered against the windshield of the car obscured Lynn’s vision more than the normal night sky usually did. She really needed to get a new pair of glasses; Lord knew every light she saw looked like the Bethlehem star from Christmas books when she drove at night. Damn astigmatism. …
Jul
18
Cassie: Part I Cassandra found and lost her brother in the summer of 2000. In one of her mother’s drug induced frenzies of chatter, she revealed to Cassie that she had a half brother. That night Cassie’s mother and her new boyfriend overdosed on heroine. Cassie didn’t waste a second trying to find …
Jul
18
Scarlett: Part I Scarlett hadn’t wanted to kill Samuel. She had been planning to just let this one go, but after she caught him cheating on her, with a detective, she knew it had to end. She didn’t know what he knew or if it was even important, but like any killer, she kept …
Jul
17
This is the first segment of a story that was nearly five years in the making. It began as a writing assignment in college and was worked on slowly but surely until I was happy ending it. Countless hours of research, bottles of wine, pots of tea and/or coffee, pints of beer, and boxes of …
Carol Ann ConoverThis self-described different breed of woman only likes to spoon after a good fork, uses the good china for hot meals every day of the week, gets crafty with beer and ages like fine wine.
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Mia Marie SimonsMelissa, or Mia to her friends, is an ironically macabre contradiction. A girly tomboy, full of sunshine and rainbows... and dark and dreary things.She has been steeped in her love of English...