Scribbling in the Dark
I am writing a story here called The Black Town Murders, broken out in regular Stacks/Chapters. It's a juicy murder mystery written in a style I call "Cinematic Fiction." I also write on non-fiction topics, such as disease, addiction, and mental health.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 3
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Sep 28, 2026
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A Beautiful Stray (opens the original)
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It was all very different then. There were the Italians and the Greeks, the Puerto Ricans, and of course the black girls and the Spanish girls who worked the streets. There were the pizza and bagel shops, the abandoned elevated subway tracks running down 10th avenue where the junkies went to shoot up, the two-story Pentecostal church with the “Jesus es la Luz del Mundo” sign out front and the taxi repair shops that ran all night with the sound of bent metal being hammered out. There were the peo
The Black Town Murders, Stack #1 (opens the original)
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The Black Town Murders (opens the original)
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