Comic Caper & Other Short Stories
from My Bloody Valentine: a PUNK NOIR Magazine series
Happy Valentine’s Day Punks!
Hopefully everyone is getting laid today or is at least writing some stellar prose.
Prose like these two ballads to bloody valentines.
Cheers always,
– Stephen J. Golds, editor-in-chief
Comic Caper by Karl Koweski
Women were a mystery to Donahoe.
He was more familiar with the workings of Gotham. Maybe that was his problem. Not his predilection for Hawaiian shirts. Comic books, nature’s woman repellant.
Felicia was different. She seemed enthusiastic about his comic collection, would ask him questions, not about characters or storylines, mostly about value.
It was enough. He was in love.
When she knocked him over the head with a Batman Hot Toy, he never saw it coming.
If she’d been more curious, she’d have learned CGC graded books are logged in a computer base, easily accessible by police.
Bio
Karl Koweski is a displaced Chicagoan living in a valley in rural Alabama. His latest short story collection “Thrift Store Jackets” is available wherever books are sold… online.
The Rose by James Curtis
Nervously he sat at the kitchen table, awaiting her arrival.
He’d picked out a fine rose for the occasion. Its color was bold; its thorns were sharp.
She loves me, he said, letting go of another petal. She loves me not.
Soon he’d know the truth.
The front door swung open and closed, bringing with it a blast of frigid winter air. God, how he longed for her warmth.
She loves me.
Her footsteps, fast. Always in a hurry.
She loves me n—
She entered the room. He’d picked out a fine knife for the occasion. Its blade was sharp.
Bio
James Curtis is a writer located in Connecticut, USA. When he’s not working his day job, you can find him slowly descending into madness as he chips away at his first collection of short stories. His horror-comedy VISITORS is now available in ebook format on Amazon.com!
These stories appear as part of My Bloody Valentine, a PUNK NOIR Magazine series.
PUNK NOIR, the online literary and arts magazine that looks at the world at its most askew, casting a bloodshot eye over the written word, film, music, television and more.
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