Sharp Edges
By Top Writers Block, Cleve Sylcox, Barnaby Wilde and
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Top Writers Block has written a collection of short stories full of sharp edges and cutting wit. Knives cut deep, but so do words. Enjoy this collection of fiction full of fun, fantasy, mystery, and horror. Eight stories include authors Cleve Sylcox, Barnaby Wilde, Suzy Stewart Dubot, Tracey Howard, and Melissa A. Szydlek.
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Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! We are happy to announce that authors proceeds have always gone, and will continue to go, to Sea Shepherd.fr every time Smashwords has made a payment! Thank you to those who have supported the group, independent authors, and Sea Shepherd. Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror. All the Top Writers Block's proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd, so by buying you are helping to keep our oceans alive! Thank You all so much!
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Sharp Edges - Top Writers Block
A Collection of Short Stories
by
TOP WRITERS BLOCK
Written on the theme:
SHARP EDGES
Copyright ©April 2016 by each individual author as noted
Published on Smashwords
Cover Graphic from Adobe Stock
ISBN: 9781310007378
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ON A RAZORS EDGE by Cleve Sylcox - https://goo.gl/zXDfdj
THE KNIFE MAN by Barnaby Wilde - https://goo.gl/Oqmz2F
THE COST OF SHARP EDGES by Suzy Stewart Dubot - https://goo.gl/snAUfw
MAGGIE AND COMPANY by Tracey Howard - https://goo.gl/rI3eDX
JAGGED by Melissa A. Szydlek - https://goo.gl/QeZqk9
SHARP RETURN by Elizabeth Rowan Keith - https://goo.gl/X6lve4
TAPPING by Melissa A. Szydlek - https://goo.gl/QeZqk9
TURNING POINTS by Elizabeth Rowan Keith - https://goo.gl/X6lve4
ON A RAZORS EDGE
by
Cleve Sylcox
Copyright ©2016 Cleve Sylcox
Cleve Sylcox has been writing short stories most of his life. He writes in a variety of genres with an emphasis on the strange and bizarre. He has also written stories in five anthologies. Whatever your taste, he has something for you.
Full moon.
Starry sky.
Suzanne leaned back on top of a boulder twice her height gazing at the sight. Her eyes scanned the heavens for shooting stars. A Smith & Wesson 442 air-weight, double-action revolver sat on the boulder near her hip. Most call it a .38 special.
Her father was the Sheriff of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, northeast of Albuquerque. He taught her to shoot and sent her to all the self-defense classes he felt his daughter should know, which meant she had been in training five days a week since she was ten. By the time she was thirteen she was a black belt in Karate, and knew how to take down a grown man with two punches. She shot a .45 as accurately as anyone on the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department.
By the time she was twenty-three, she had graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law with top honors. Her fellow graduates called her tough, irrational at times with a quick temper that no one challenged—at least not twice. Once was more than enough and those that witnessed her quick intellect or her thrust of an iron fist learned not to step into her cross hairs.
At the Academy, she solidified her reputation for toughness in physical training and her IQ in the classroom.
A loner. She kept to herself. Didn’t give many men pleasure and pushed back most advances from men or women. Beauty salons or trips to the pool to bask in the sun were never on her itinerary. Law enforcement was her life.
She climbed off the boulder and walked over to her squad car. Chatter from the police radio reminded her to call in.
Fifty-two this is ninety-two. Twenty, south of Jacobs Run on Baxter Ridge.
Copy ninety-two. Fifty-two out.
The radio chatter returned. She heard something about a fight in, The Mills neighborhood—low income and notorious for disturbances every Friday and Saturday night. Two units responded.
Normally she would be the first on the scene with an itch to serve justice her own way. There was a special fondness in her heart for women beaters and child abusers. She beat the crap out of them and claimed they resisted arrest.
Yesterday in Burlington, a small town at the base of Black Hawk Ridge, she answered a dispatch for a 10-17, domestic violence.
She’d been to the small town several times. In her opinion it was more like a group home for derelicts, cheats, murderers, and delinquents of all varieties. Crime ran rampant and she looked forward to knocking some heads.
Most of the time, she went no farther than the bar on the outskirts of town called, Cerveza, Spanish for beer. The owner, Jose Sears, lacked creativity in naming the place, but he made up for it in illegal dealings. Drugs, prostitution, smuggling, and of course forging papers for the illegal’s crossing the Mexican border were just some of his known activities. She had participated in several busts, but the banditos covered their tracks well. A few whores were taken in and a handful of cocaine found, not much of anything else.
The disturbance was in a middle-income subdivision with cookie cutter houses. Most were twenty-by-thirty, one story ranch with a carport. She used to live in a house similar to them in Del Ray.
When she arrived at, 2373 Cactus Patch Court, at one o’clock in the afternoon, the front door was open and a black male lay shot in its threshold. She radioed for back up while kneeling near the man and checking for a pulse. There wasn’t any.
The nearest squad car was twenty minutes away.
From inside the house she heard a child scream and then a gunshot cracked from somewhere nearby. She stepped over the corpse into the sparsely furnished living room and