This week I thought I would share
with you a small sample of one of the mystery stories from my MIND SLICES short story collection. If you
like what you see of this one, there are fifteen more tales in the book with
several of them mystery oriented……
Package of Pain
Mike Thornstein sat in his truck in
front of his own house as a light drizzle coated the windshield. The package was there again, even though it
wasn’t supposed to be. He had been promised
by everyone that it was all over. The
investigation was supposed to have ended months ago. He had been cleared, publicly exonerated, but
nothing changed.
It sat there wrapped in plain brown
paper on his stoop. When they first
started showing up every Friday like clockwork, his colleagues had searched for
the sender. Each one had been mailed
from a mailbox in Fort Worth. Television
had “Walker,” but all Mike had were bureaucratic bosses who decided the
packages weren’t a threat. When the sender
wasn’t identified after a few weeks, manpower and resources were delegated
elsewhere. Mike was still on suspension
while awaiting assignment, albeit very unofficially, and the packages were
still coming. Something had to be done
to end it.
The windshield wipers slapped across
clearing the glass. Visible again, the
package sat there waiting for him. He
turned the engine off and listened to it tick as it cooled. The glass slowly misted over as the drizzle
continued. The package dissolved from
view into globs of water on the glass. Sitting there, watching the mist fall,
wasn’t going to solve the problem.
Mike heaved himself out of his old
truck and crossed the leaf-strewn yard.
Rain and wind had stripped most of the leaves off the trees .....
Containing science fiction, fantasy,
and mystery stories, the 16 tales are available for $2.99 at the following
sites….
Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/243655
Barnes and Noble’s NOOK http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mind-slices-kevin-tipple/1113576100?ean=2940044983076
Kevin
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