FRINGE ETIQUETTE From ‘THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES’ By C.W. Badie (8,853 words) As a sideline to his security business, Kip worked as a private dick whose specialty was hunting down runaway teens and missing persons. He was good at it and always closed his cases. He found them and returned them to their homes, sometimes afraid or slightly damaged. Sometimes they were so far gone he knew he would soon see them on the Fringe streets again. The cases he hated ended like that, or worse, he found t...

Something Else By C.W. Badie The room stank of sex, cigarettes, and the cheap pine cleaner they used to scrub it down between uses. Tanner Paige took another drag off his Newport, exhaling the smoke lazily through his mouth and nose. Through the haze, he watched Candy wash away evidence of the urgent sex they had only moments before. Until Candy, Tanner had sworn off hookers though she was only the second woman he had ever paid to have sex with. The first one was all “Hurry up and cum” and wa...