They chased after him. The three men had seen him snatch the purse from the older woman as she finished her business at the ATM. He had made the first corner with no problem but had tripped over the curb as he round the second corning. Now limping, the three men were quickly gaining on…

Rusty believed himself to be a ladies-man. All the women in the office thought he was an ass. His latest conquest, Ciana, had enough of his sexual innuendos and unwanted passes and had decided to put an end to his harassment. With that, she brought in 24 raw crystals and laid them end-to-end in a…

She no longer had to wear a mask, and that made Cheryl happy. She did not have a hard time wearing a mask but seeing others did make life difficult. Cheryl suffered from childhood with ommetaphobia, a fear of eyes. Even the act of looking in a mirror with a mask on caused nausea, tremors,…

To call it anything other than horrifying would be an understatement. I tried calling it cruelty, even neglect, but neither word seems to fit the situation. It is where nightmares come alive, adding to those that already haunt the short hours of unrestful sleep. As I walked into the woman’s yard, I saw the live…

As she struggled, her yellow dress, already short, was now over her hips. She was not wearing underwear. Still haunted by the memory of what had happened in Iraq, he smiled at the thing in his bed, “I’m gonna fuck you till you scream with pleasure.” Already naked himself, Nick stuffed his erectness into the…

My Cousin Elmo says, “I’m on the tequila diet, and so far I’ve lost three days.”

Once inside and with the door securely locked behind him, Nick relaxed a little. As he prepared for bed, he looked out his window at the street and where the woman had been. He felt himself jump as he looked down on her, and she stood still, staring up at his window. Nick picked up…

The odd walk, the goofy grin, and the overpowering sense of danger were nothing new to him. He had seen it once before while on duty at a checkpoint outside Baghdad nearly 16 years before. Back then, he was in the Marine Corps. The night of the incident at the checkpoint remained burned in his…

A gunman held up a U.S. postal carrier in the early evening hours of June 7, along Kipling Drive in Dayton, Nevada. Investigators with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) describe the suspect as a Black male, about 20 years old, five feet, seven or eight inches tall, last seen wearing a red hoodie, black…

Part of Center Street in Reno, between UNR and the railroad tracks at Commercial Row, was renamed University Avenue in 1920. Then in 1957, Reno renamed Center Street from Virginia Street north to the University as University Avenue. Both times, Reno changed the name back to Center Street. Now, in time for its 2024 sesquicentennial,…