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A Bullet for Every Lie
The desert sun beat down like a punishment from the gods. Sand twisted in the wind, whispering secrets long buried. Marshal Elias Thorne rode slow, his duster billowing behind him, silver badge catching sunlight like a mirror to the past. The town of Redemption lay ahead, brittle and sunburnt, its wooden bones creaking in the wind.
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
Two Graves, One Name
The small town of Elderspring sat nestled between two mountain ridges, half-forgotten by time and progress. At its edge, the cemetery sprawled across a sloping hill, shaded by cypress trees and veiled in a near-constant hush. There, under an aging iron arch that read Whispering Pines, lay two graves side by side—unremarkable save for one eerie detail. They bore the same name:
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
The Warden’s Secret
Warden Elias Thorn was a man of order. At Cold Hollow Penitentiary, where snow clung to the razor-wire fences like stubborn ghosts and the wind whispered secrets through cracked stone walls, nothing happened without his knowledge—or so it was believed.
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
Thomas Partey, former Arsenal footballer, charged with rape and sexual assault
Five charges of rape and one charge of sexual assault Partey denies all the charges against him The former Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
By SHYAKA MARSabout a year ago in Criminal
The Barrel in the Walls: When Blood Confessed
STORY START The smell was what betrayed my father’s crime. Four years after our maid Nora vanished, workers renovating Samuel’s crumbling mansion broke through a false wall in the basement. Behind it lay a concrete chamber no larger than a coffin. And inside, bound by chains, sat a rusted steel barrel.
By Ahmed Abdeenabout a year ago in Criminal
No One Saw Her Leave
It was the kind of town where nothing ever changed. The streets were lined with peeling shutters and sun-bleached porch swings. People knew each other's birthdays and secrets, or at least they thought they did. So when Maeve Larkin vanished, the whole town paused as if the air had stopped moving.
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
A Fifth Autopsy
Dr. Elara Morrow washed her hands slowly, as if scrubbing away the dread that had taken root under her skin. She’d done four autopsies in as many days, each more bizarre than the last. Each body arrived with the same signs: no external wounds, organs appearing pristine, but a blank expression frozen in wide-eyed terror.
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
If You See These Messages On Your PC, You’re Being Hacked
There’s a new attack “taking the threat landscape by storm,” and it should have all PC users worried. “While virtually nonexistent a year ago,” this attack has surged to such an extent in recent months that it’s now second only to phishing on the danger list.
By Muhammad Sabeelabout a year ago in Criminal
The Man Who Knew Nothing
The village of Dunlow was small, hidden between two tired hills and wrapped in fog most mornings. It wasn’t the kind of place you stumbled upon. It was the kind of place you were born in and never left. Everyone knew everyone — their families, their secrets, even their misfortunes. Everyone, that is, except for Thomas Finch.
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
A Grave Mistake
It was a rainy afternoon when Jonathan Blake, a middle-aged historian with a passion for forgotten cemeteries, arrived in the remote village of Windmere Hollow. He had recently discovered references in a 19th-century journal to a lost graveyard on the outskirts of the village—one that was never officially recorded.
By Said Hameedabout a year ago in Criminal
