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Boxing Day
Agents 32 and 33 have an interesting conversation with a man at a convenient store in east Charlotte on the day after Christmas. Another tale in the psecret psociety pshort pstory pseries.
December Delirium
The author (future agent 33) and his now-deceased cohort in mind, Frank N. Peck (future agent 107), take a smoky drive in east Charlotte in 1981 (which is retraced in 2015). The topic of LED time displays soon takes over their conversation and turns into a mental contest. Who will win and have to...
When She Looked Away
Arpita is a small town girl who made it to the big city. She found the man of her dreams. They move in together and are deeply, madly in love. Arpita has marriage on her mind, but Mayank has plans of his own. What happens when she looks away?
Kill the Cynic
Margaret, made miserable by her unappreciative family, diverts her attention to someone else's hotel. On investigating further, she is spared disgrace by her inquisitive friend and the unwitting owner.
Romance Meets Death
A short story from 2005 from Ina Disguise. The tale of a young artist, trying not to be. Ina gets into trouble at work in the course of failing to seduce an ugly pathologist. Ina makes a film and narrowly escapes losing her income.
Reality Check
A sad tale of family dysfunction and the selfishness of sibling rivalry, told from the perspective of the youngest of a family of go-getters.
I Only Date Millionaires
Pippa is bored at work and seeks solace in the wonderful world of online dating. She quickly finds out that she is an utter failure at being materialistic.
One Day in November
While at a Starbucks inside a Target department store in midtown Charlotte, the author (Agent 33) overhears an interesting conversation at an adjacent table between a writer and a possible literary agent. The bizarrely unique techniques that this now-published writer used to get his first novel in...
Le Noir de Lenoir
Three familiar agents look for an Asian grocery store on a tranquil autumn afternoon in the foothills town of Lenoir (North Carolina, USA). They meet a 'walking man' with a dark appearance in a store. Later, they see him again, still walking weighed down with grocery bags, some three miles from...
Devil's Due
Author's Note: This story is NOT for the faint of heart. If you cannot handle the greusome truth of what one human being can do to another, then this story is NOT for you. Read at your own peril.