Available on Amazon now: 51-50 -- click the title
Cleaver is a cop who just can't take it anymore. He knows he's going to step over the line, it's just a question of when. It's the smirk that blows him away in this stripped down psycho noir short story.
Cleaver is a cop who just can't take it anymore. He knows he's going to step over the line, it's just a question of when. It's the smirk that blows him away in this stripped down psycho noir short story.
An excerpt:
It was the smirk that
blew me away. A half grin in the eyes and mouth, mocking, laughing. Maybe at me
- maybe at the badge. They were leaning against a grimy cinder block wall under
a sooty sky. Thumbs hooked into pockets of baggy lowrider pants, fingers, long
and lean, twisting into coded signals. Eyes hollow. Eyes I don't even want to
meet in the darkest dream. Hollow men. Hollow boys. Nothing behind those eyes.
Nothing. They don't care. Don't give a damn.
It was that smirk
that blew them away.
~~~
Cops aren't supposed
to have feelings. We do a good job of hiding them. Burying them. But we're just
like everybody else. We hide them in bravado or work. We hide them in a bottle
or in "inexplicable" rages. But they're there, like the molten lava
in a volcano just waiting to burst through to the surface.
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Reviews of "51-50":
"Hat's off Mr. Marks - noir is your playground and you do it better than any other current writer."
Reviews of "51-50":
"Hat's off Mr. Marks - noir is your playground and you do it better than any other current writer."
--Kat Yares, Amazon VineTM-Voice
Reviewer
"Writer Paul D.
Marks can get inside a character's head and walk around better than anybody.
His latest short story, 51-50, does just that…"
--G.B. Pool, author
of "The Johnny Casino Casebook 1 - Past Imperfect"
Available on Amazon now: 51-50 -- click the title
