It’s been said that happiness writes white, and if unhappiness makes for good stories, then the collision of human impulses that creates crimes also produces some of the best dramas to be found. The stories here variously illustrate the choices, the helplessness before fate, the grace or despair that occur when the worst happens.
Skip Horack
Borderlands
He awoke on the couch with her standing over him.
Anton Chekhov
The Murder
“Let him rot! He’s got what he deserved!”
David Sipress
Beautiful Things
Alone in a little room, nothing but that big gun in my face.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Crime of the Brigadier
He flew into two pieces, head one way and tail another.
