FICTION FACTORY. Welcome to my mini-self-publishing imprint for short stories running around 30,000 words. These stories are not collected or bundled with other tales. If you buy WITCHES, you won’t suffer disappointment in later life by finding WITCHES reheated for a collection called TALES TO IMPRESS PALAEONTOLOGISTS. Be thankful for that small mercy.
THE MADONNA GAMBIT.
Come on. Is that likely? A tactic
you’ve used, true. If they are sharp enough to keep an eye on you, they’ll do
so from here. Not on the exposed walkway by the shore. Leapfrog ahead in that
red car, and hang around the streets. Around the spare wheels. No one knows
about the contingency except her. Your link to the outside world. If she’s suspect, throw yourself in the
lake now.
Placing the spare car here was a
thin point generating weakness. Getting the keys to him constituted another
thin spot. Forget this crisis of non-confidence. The only way to compromise the
alternative exit is by going there to check on things. You are a tourist,
remember. Lurching from puddle to puddle. Doing touristy things on a rainy day.
They
are watching me.
Snap
the hell out of it.
Harvey Yale is a hired killer. He
wonders why the Madonna Gambit isn’t going according to plan. Is revenge really
reaching from beyond the grave to spoil Harvey
Someone marked him. Coincidence. He
was offered a gun he wasn’t sure about using. Uncertainty meant nothing. This
wasn’t a high-profile job. He could walk away from the pittance they’d offered
him, claiming the set-up looked bad.
Set-up. The phrase needled him.
When in doubt, run with your gut before your gut is wrapped around the other
guy’s cutlery. Is the mission compromised? Has paranoia won over instinct? Join
Harvey
37,000 words, plus notes.
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