Shred of Evidence

You’ve just killed a man. He’s lying on the carpet and the gun is in your hand, heavy and warm, and there’s a smell in the air like burnt cork. There’s not much blood because he died instantly, from a bullet to the heart, and dead men don’t keep bleeding.

You swallow hard. Your pulse is racing and it’s suddenly hard to breathe. You’re afraid someone heard the shot, because you’re in a hotel room with paper-thin walls. Someone could be dialing 911 at this moment, the cops could bust in and find you if you don’t haul ass out of here. Of course, they’ll find you anyway, this foolproof scheme of yours is bitched up good, but you’re not ready to be caught just yet.

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I’ve published numerous stories in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Not One of Us, and elsewhere, and wrote several episodes of HBO’s horror series, Tales from the Crypt, as well as the crime series Dark Justice, Silk Stalkings, and 18 Wheels of Justice. I’m also the author of Dead Heat, a buddy cop/comedy-horror film starring Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo, and issue #10 of the comic book Pete, the P.O.’d Postal Worker from Sharkbait Press.