‘No one gets out of life without dirtying their hands,’ said Jeff ‘Smudge’ May, watching the steam rise from his muddy coffee. Fitz just nodded and started digging into his bacon and eggs with all the enthusiasm of an ex-con in a bordello. The Star Coffee Bar was stiflingly hot and cluttered with the usualContinue reading “A Story For Sunday: SMUDGE”
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Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street is an American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne (The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir. The principal actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, andContinue reading “Scarlet Street”
Recommended Read: A House Of Ghosts by W C Ryan
It’s 1917 and British secret agent Donovan heads off to a remote island off the Devon coast to attend a séance on Blackwater Abbey. He is accompanied by Kate Cartwright, who also works for British Intelligence and who happens to be a psychic. All is not as it seems, of course. Cartwright and DonovanContinue reading “Recommended Read: A House Of Ghosts by W C Ryan”
#FRIDAY FLASH: In The Devil’s Name
Isabelle told the man with the porkpie hat that she had only stopped off at the bar for a couple of drinks to drown her sorrows and that it really wasn’t the sort of establishment that she usually frequented. ‘My father’s funeral, you know?’ she croaked, eyes down, as if she were playing bingo. SinceContinue reading “#FRIDAY FLASH: In The Devil’s Name”