Update
Well Boys and Girls, I'm sure one or two of you have wondered what happened ot the Thursday Night Thrillers. They will return, and with a vengeance, but for the last year or so, I have been focusing my artistic pursuits in a slightly different direction: I have been writing songs. The first collection of…
The Things They Take
The door was unlocked when I reached it, behind the tall grass and tangled vines. Well… Unlocked isn’t the word. It was hanging open. The storm door was gone altogether. I stepped through it into the kitchen. The ceiling tiles had started coming down. That figures. They had been stained from a leak even when…
Luck Be a Lady
“You’re gonna regret this,” she said. I smiled a little. “Sam,” I said, “I’m sorry, but this just isn’t working out. You’re a great girl, and I’m sure you’ll find someone. That someone just isn’t me. Not right now.” She left in a huff, and that was the last time I ever saw…
Hunger – II
The next day I sat in our lavish conference room, flipping through the plaintiff’s motion with all of the reverence that a dog shows a fire hydrant. On either side of me sat 3 professional looking individuals with legal pads. One of these was Jimmy, the other five were probably paralegals, because I doubted he…
Hunger – I
The island of Manhattan has long been a home to men whose love of money is rivaled only by their love of themselves. The better part of the world’s power is concentrated in these few, greedy souls. Among them, however, there is one whose lust for power and money makes the rest seem tame. My…
Rosek – A Song of Sarin
The smell of salt hung heavy in the air, and the wooden deck pitched sharply beneath my feet. This was it, I thought. This was how it would end. In the sky the clouds were heavy and dark. They seemed almost to sag under the burden of the coming rain, and the sea was rising…
Alexander Ferrick's Thursday Thrillers 