Murder: It’s American!

GENTLEMEN! YOU CAN’T FIGHT IN HERE! THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!   “Dr. Strangelove”
After a two week hiatus (okay, “more or less”), I’m patrolling the television airwaves last night, looking for blog fodder. I’m basically thinking about breaking new ground with raw, undiluted honesty. Meaning, I’ve been toying with the idea of blogging about some of the real-life [...]

MOSQUITOLAND

Here are a few pieces from STRIPMINE…this is a collection of short essays and poetry written from about 1987 to 2005. The first printing was in 1994, with another limited run in 1999. I’ve edited the whole collection three times, with the most recent major edit in 2005.
The following selections are mostly pieces I wrote when [...]

TRACE EVIDENCE

Trace Evidence
By Gregory Purvis © 2008
 
The first week of May and it still feels like winter.
Ganza shook his head irritably, wincing at the stiffness in his neck. The house—a crime scene, now that Forensics was officially sucking-up all the overtime hours—was bathing in long shadows, with sunrise still two hours shy of turning this bad [...]