FICTION FLASH -- Tales of Crime 100 Words Long

From Shoplifters To Murderers -- Criminals Caught in 100 words

Would you ever imagine a mystery could be brought to life and then solved in 100 words?
In this eclectic collection of flash fiction Brian Kenyon divulges just enough clues to each crime. 100 words later the puzzle is solved unexpectedly, with perhaps a twist of irony or just desserts. 
Here you'll discover crime and police stories as well as fiction of the "What If?" variety. 


Here is a sample:

"Weight Watcher"
by Brian Kenyon
It was a slow afternoon. The owner sat in the back of his empty menswear store patiently as his ancestors waiting for buffalo to hunt. A skinny white teenager slouched in wearing a baggy sweatshirt. Soon, he came out of a dressing room fifty pounds heavier. The sweatshirt stretched. The owner strolled to the front door, stood in the teenager's way out, looked him deep in his eyes and said nothing. Looking back arrogantly at first, the teenager soon saw emptiness closing in on his world terribly as a coffin lid. He took off the shirts and ran away. 

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1965 Mustang

1965 Mustang

By Brian Kenyon

Mobile Manors sat on a bluff above the Sacramento River. Manuel Jones was 6’6” with a barrel chest, but nimble as a cat. He sipped coffee on his trailer porch, watching the brightening dawn materialize his cherry 1965 Mustang. A wrecker parked behind the Mustang. The driver jumped out, hooked the Mustang, pulled a lever and it rose five feet. Manuel leaped down from the porch and started strangling the repo man. “You the owner?” he gasped. Manuel said yeah. The repo man said he was a freelance and he needed a bodyguard. He told his boss Manuel was never home.