Story by Micah Castle

Illustration by L.A. Spooner

Father Marcus was hearing the confession of a “crazed” parishioner. For reasons that his rationally could not make sense of, he was drawn to the person’s story, felt pulled by the book the man was talking about. His plan was to ask this person to hand over the book. If the person refused, he would force him. But when he went to the confessional and threw open the door, it was not a man sitting there, but a hideous creature…a thing that should not be. Petrified he looked, and heard, when the creature asked. “Do you want eyes on the inside, too?”.

Read Confession in Crimson Streets #1: A Story A Week and Other Tales, available from Amazon, the Kindle Store, the iBooks Store, or wherever hard-boiled and pulp paperbacks are sold.

Crimson Streets #1:“A Story A Week” and Other Tales presents 26 riveting stories inspired by the classic pulp magazines of yesteryear. Beginning with the Twilight Zone-inspired tale “A Story A Week” and ending with the mystical, hard-boiled detective story “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished,” Crimson Streets spans the gamut of gritty crime stories, weird horror tales, and heroic adventures that set the pulps apart as a distinct category of literature.
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