Welcome to my First Friday Free Mystery Fiction, wherein I share a free mystery short story on the first Friday of every month. You have one week to read the story here before it vanishes into the cyber ether. Tick, tick tick… My newsletter subscribers have the option of downloading these stories, plus a couple more, to read at their leisure. You can sign up in the sidebar. Hint, hint. 😉 This suspenseful short is NOT a Sydney Brennan story. It also has never been published before, so it has never been edited, except by me. If something wonky in Read more...