There are eight more tales from the dark grimy side of life packed in this thin electronic volume.
Story one is Sounding by Matthew McBride. It starts out as one of the surefire strangest tales you ever heard with a former prison guard rattling on about how guys smuggled the strangest stuff in their body orifices, all as a prelude to a story about smuggling across the border. In the hands of a lesser writer, this would be pure dreck, but the writer has a great voice and you think that you're just listening to some guy at the bar.
Story two is Black Pearls by Jessica Adams takes the reader on a journey to the South Pacific where the pearl fields are. It's not exactly gritty crime fiction, but it is a smooth-reading piece.
Dinner Rush by Angel Luis Colon is the next selection and is a story about exotic dishes and guys making offers you can't refuse.
A Bottle of Scotch And A Sharp Buck-knife by Scott Grand is a treat. Sort of a Norman Rockwell painting with a bucket of pain thrown on it. It's a story of young kids speeding around on ten speeds and shooting the crap with each other. It's also a story about lessons learned about how to deal with problems. Told in the first person by a ten year old on his ten speed somewhere in way Northern California where Redding is considered a big town.
Purgatory by Kenneth Levine is a different take on a hitman story. At first, it seems like a Quarry story but there's a twist, an unusual twist.
Larry's Proposal by Michael Cebola is just a story about sibling competition and the difficulties that ensue.
Ofrenda by J David Gonzalez is a story that takes place in Little Havana and kind of leaves you with your mouth hanging open.
192 over 110 by Max Sheridan. From the opening sentence, this is the real stuff: "When I say it all started with a woman, understand that it was my wife who started it." And later, the narrator explains that, when he looks at his face, he "didn't see a place where real happiness belonged." Instead, he sees a man "buried in wet sand from the neck down waiting for the high tide to roll in." This bitter tale may be the best of the lot.
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