PROMPT 49 CONTEST ENTRY - Getting in the back of a taxi, your character finds a thick envelope. It's addressed but has no postage. After getting stuck in a downpour, Warren Daly ends up in a taxi waiting for better driving conditions. When he notices a package on the floor in the back, he and the driver agree to deliver it on the way to Warren's house. The following several weeks of their lives are drastically changed by that choice.…
Based on ONC Prompt 53 - The co-worker who irritates you the most just asked you for a big favour. They're not who or what they appear to be. And they know you're not either.…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONC2023 CHALLENGE!One dark and stormy night a family went missing, they left taking absolutely nothing with them. When their disappearance was reported, nobody, including the police could figure out what happened. The mystery has gone unsolved for almost 10 years, then a call comes in from an unknown source that changes everything. The job now is to figure out who the caller is, if the family is still alive, and how you will expose what happened.…
Private Detective, Rick Hart reluctantly accepts what he believes to be a forty year old case of a missing person from an intriguing, determined woman who prefers to keep her reasons secret. His investigation quickly turns out to be something far different . . . and much uglier.…
A map fragment is found among the belongings of an archaeologist that died working on the site of a dig in Egypt. before any action can be taken, the rest of the belongings are stolen before any more could be retrieved and protected.The map, a possible confirmation of the Viking visits to North America, draws the attention of the Congress of International Antiquities, and their investigator, Gretta Lawrence.From Canada's northern country all the way to the east coasts of Newfoundland, and Labrador, the Congress team races to beat a criminal opposition to the prize believed to be buried there.…
When miners and prospectors visit the town during a yearly celebration in order to meet the government assayer, a notorious land grabber starts preparing to obtain a claim from an elderly prospector who has finally struck it rich. The sheriff and his deputy have other ideas. Bits of fun, humour, and romance sprinkle the story throughout, but in the end the plan turns ugly and dangerous.…
BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!Coaxed out of retirement for a last time, one time performance, Ratty Kat, live on stage at the Oomph Theatre, with his adaptation of an old favourite. Ratty's career began back in the late 20th century with the production of cartoon books for tots. The last of that series was Ratty Kat and the Robber Rabbit. After that, he moved into more slightly mature projects, appearing in parodies of both James Bond and Indiana Jones. Finally, after his legendary successes in books, Ratty returned to his original roots on the Broadway stage, appearing in several performances of classic plays, at last retiring to his cat box to relax and reminisce. Our intrepid user managed to track him down and convince him that the world would love to see Ratty Kat on stage once more. So now, I present to you, live on stage - RATTY KAT - PUTTIN' ON THE RITZVideo property of German TV show "ZDF Silvester-Tanzparty" at the New Years Eve TV Show in 1983.…
After the unfortunate demise of his police detective father, Wendell Dankworth and his friend Jerome Weeble take up the roles of private investigators and begin a search for the criminals responsible.Their inexperience and bumbling leads them into the worlds of smuggling, cartels, hit men, crime lords and gang warfare.Real life also intrudes, when they shirk domestic responsibilities for the house they share along with a very strong-willed, no nonsense woman.…
When Miller Hunt lands at his all expense paid, dream vacation resort it quickly turns to a chaotic nightmare of confusion and misadventure involving swindlers, cheaters, killers and a frustrating romance. An adventure/mystery/comedy…
Galen Helliwell and Lydia St. Claire, settle together in Barrow falls after their run-in with a group of thieving killers in the story, 'The Right Thing To Do'.In this sequel, their neighbours, the family they helped protect from Deiter Preston's gang, ask for his help for a single father and his daughter, who are being harassed and bullied by a local businessman and his gang.Galen's help appears in the form of a complicated scam that requires the help of almost the entire town.…
Deadly St. Louis epidemics of cholera and typhoid in the mid 1800s had taken her father and changed Harriet's life. With a lot of patience and courage, she left home to establish a library in a small western town. The excitement and adventure she imagined soon met an ugly reality."I was a victim, not the avenging killer people attached to my name."…
When the owner of a company embezzles funds and his salesman intercepts the stash, only to be robbed himself, the chase is on. Wives, mistresses, love struck pawns and even the police scramble in the race for the money. There are deadly results for all participants, proving once again.... money is the root of all evil.…
This is a smattering of the funny episodes in a tragic disease. Humour is everywhere if you keep an open mind and embrace the opportunities to laugh and smile.…
A series of poems and prose around caring for my best friend, my wife.…
Galen Helliwell, an aimless traveller with a personal ethic of always trying to do the right thing.…
A small bedroom community/tourist town rocked by its first homicide, the brutal murder of an unpopular recluse. An unemployed ex military policeman, hired as the only law in the town, attempts to discover the truth when all the clues point to someone in the town.…
Ratty Kat discovers that working with others can pay off.Discovered on old floppies while cleaning house - the first of the Ratty Kat series for my grandkids© 2001 - lyttlejoe…
Straight from their smash hit, From Keswick with Love, the two stars are together again in a rousing adventure battling villainous gangs, natives and the elements as they seek the famous Ivory Mask.…
Found this in my file drawer - long forgotten so I thought I would dig it out and maybe have some fun. It's another young children's story about a cat spy parody of James Bond.© 2002 - lyttlejoe…