Tag: literary noir

  • FICTION — Joachim and the Vortex

    It was peak time between three and four. The carnival crowd milled about as Cara ushered in the next group of people for the ‘Vortex’ —a ferris wheel tipped on its side and capable of a sickening speed of seventy kilometres per hour. Those who were vacating the ride staggered past her, some with patches…

  • FLASH FICTION — The Peace of Completion and Release

    She never spoke, never made a sound, but the look in her eyes told me exactly what was about to happen. I leaned forward. One step. Two. I breathed the words I knew she needed to hear. I didn’t mean a word of them. Her pink, sweet lips parted in a beckoning smile, and I…