Short Stories – 2022
December 2022
The Greatest Gift
All little Peter wants to do is deliver a gift to his grandpa, hoping that by doing so, he can reconcile the hurt between his parents and his grandpa.
November 2022
Trapped
A story that is all dialog. Two people being interviewed. One is a murderer and one is the detective who caught him. The questions being asked are not printed, only the responses.
October 2022
The First Time
Amber and Nicky had the perfect plan to get rich. Only the widow Margarat Ashford didn’t die as easily as they had hoped.
September 2022
Social Media
Social Media is now the number one platform for human traffickers to find their victims. Roger Orson decides to do something about the problem.
August 2022
Time Heals All Wounds
Carson Applebaum has the honor of working with Dr. Zacharia on a new method of time travel. The experiments are going well. But then the man who raped Carson’s mother years ago is released from prison. Carson Applebaum’s life is upended. He must find a way to set things right for his mother. Will the time travel experiments provide a way?
July 2022
Buried Feelings
Dennis Tipton is sleeping soundly when he wakes to pounding at his door. When he answers he comes face to face with the cutest cop he’d ever seen. Why was she at his door in the wee hours of the morning? Because Queen, his Airedale, was barking incessantly and a neighbor had complained. This complaint brings Dennis and Suzanne together. Behind their relationship, though, is a buried secret as to why the dog was barking.
The story has two endings. Send the author an email at bdlawrence@bdlawrence.com to let him know which ending you liked better.
June 2022
Sitting on a Park Bench
Private Detective Phillip Angelo, finder of lost people, is broadsided with a strong feeling of evil as he watches a man on a park bench who is watching little children. What is this man up to? Is he the source of the evil Phillip feels?
In confronting this man, Phillip also must confront his own past and demons he thought he’d long buried. Will he yield to the Spirit or will he give in to his former nature?
May 2022
Double Jeopardy
A Jake Sledge Mystery
Introducing Jake Sledge. He lives in River City. And yes, there is always trouble in River City. He’s the one PI in town so he gets all the tough cases. Actually, he gets all the cases.
In walks Jeopardy DuPree. She wants Jake to stop her sister, Connie (short for Concentration) from killing her dad.
Jake takes the case and runs into double trouble.
February 2022
Lost Children
Introducing Phillip Angelo. Modern day apostle. Private Investigator. Specializes in finding lost people.
Phillip Angelo is directed to three lost children. Guided by the Spirit, he must take them back to their mother. Can God forgive a mother for abandoning her children?
January 2022
Questions and Answers
Alex O’Brien and Frank Lane decide to play a game of question and answer. O’Brien gives Lane the opportunity to ask three questions to try and determine what pair of people in the crowded bar are a killer and a victim. The stakes? Life or death.
