Shred of Evidence

“You stay here. I’ll get the shit.”

“No way,” She says. “You ain’t goin up there alone.”

“Fuck I ain’t,” I tell her. “You ain’t gonna risk it neither.”

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Glenn Gray is a Radiologist in private practice. His stories have appeared in Thuglit, Blazing Adventures Magazine, Powder Burn Flash, DZ Allen’s Muzzle Flash, Bewildering Stories, Underground Voices, Thug Works, and OOTG 3. He is at work on a novel.

The kid, he couldn’t have been more than 23 or 24, sat on the hood of the cruiser, starring up at the sign.

The round sign tried to take on the look of a donut. In case you couldn’t tell, the word “donuts” was written in red neon across the middle of the sign. Above it was the name Joes and below, deliberately misspelled, was tastee.

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I don’t care for people who abuse children. People who abuse children are not among my favorite kinds of people.

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I stopped counting bullet holes in the sedan when I got to thirty. It didn’t make any difference to my investigation and besides the sticky blood on the seats kept getting on my pants.

I looked across the garage at Sheriff Cooper and Deputy Weidman and asked, “What are you going to do with the reward money, buy more ammunition?”

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Dave Hardy has had fiction published by RAGEMachine and 1018 Press and literary criticism published in The Cimmerian. He lives in Austin, Texas.