Only Regrets -The First Reveal
I patted his scar and grieved for whatever had happened to him over the last ten years, then left without looking back. Continue reading Only Regrets -The First Reveal
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Only Regrets -“Can We Talk?”
Ella and her neighbor Dave shadow their apartment building handyman Joe to Pine Glen Street, site of the trash-burner murder Ella discovered accidentally. Now, another mutilated body is lying inside it. As blaring police sirens approach the site, Ella needs a hiding place. Joe appears at the door of a nearby frame cottage and invites her in. “He’s gone, Dave. Dead. What are you doing?” An approaching police car siren silenced us. Dave stowed his phone in a hip pocket and whispered, “Outside, Ella. Hurry.” We brushed debris from our clothes and hid behind the trash burner. “The siren. I … Continue reading Only Regrets -“Can We Talk?”
Only Regrets – Installment 16: Runners and Losers
In the last installment, Ella meets Detective Ferguson in his precinct office. The interview includes all her odd experiences in the neighborhood and disturbing incidents in the unit next door to her apartment. After calming herself at a pizza place, … Continue reading Only Regrets – Installment 16: Runners and Losers
“Only Regrets” Installment 11 (Apartment 2A)
[In the last installment, Ella called Animal Control Officer Falk back to her neighborhood. She suspected an abused dog lived captive in 2A, the apartment next to hers. Earlier, Falk had discovered a mutilated corpse inside a trash-burner a few … Continue reading “Only Regrets” Installment 11 (Apartment 2A)
Next Installment: “Only Regrets” (Animal Control)
[After a strange incident around a trash burner a few blocks from her home, Ella is unnerved by reports of a corpse discovered inside it. Her neighbor Fanny helps her calm down but when Ella returns to her apartment, she hears strange sounds next door. She phones Animal Control to report possible abuse.] Maybe the stress of moving was catching up with me, but I couldn’t accept I was hallucinating. Officer Falk’s patronizing tone when he walked me and the cat back to our building had made me feel small and silly. But there was that body…torn apart, he’d said. … Continue reading Next Installment: “Only Regrets” (Animal Control)
Susan Bass Marcus Writes 