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Phillip Owens

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One Good Turn Deserves Another

Sensitive Content. Several murders are committed by the antagonists. One Good Turn Deserves AnotherBy Phillip OwensHe was enjoying his third double Scotch and soda on the rocks, taking in the view from the front window of his rented high-rise apartment. It was midnight Saturday night, and the city was alive with lights. The street lights, the far-off glow of an open-air stadium where the second half of a twilight double-header professional baseball game was minutes from ending, the slow-moving headlights of a thousand cars, and the distant, ...

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The Flood Of 2026

Weekly Contest #369

The following story contains a few deaths due to drowning in a massive flood, together with the deaths of many fish and animals that eat the fish and drink the water of a nearby river. The Flood of 2026By Phillip G. OwensSaturday morning, August 8, 2026, started out like any other day, with no warning of what was to lie ahead. It had been interminably hot and humid for several days before it started raining on Saturday, August 8, 2026. It began as an intermittent drizzle, mostly off-and-on until Monday, August 10, 2026, then it really starte...

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The Black Mass

This story contains blood sacrifices and other ritualistic scenes.Black MassesBy Phillip G. OwensWilliam F. Jacobi was a big, middle-aged, broad-shouldered, heavyset man of medium height, with a mustache and a big, fleshy face. He was a detective-lieutenant with the Meadowbrook, Indiana, Police Department. It was a chilly Friday afternoon, October 20.He was investigating a property that had been abandoned for several years. It was located on a lonely, backcountry road, a few miles outside of town. This morning, October 20, he had received so...

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The Fear Of Hospitals

I never told my doctor why I was afraid of hospitals, but he knew I was alright. I went to him to have a pestering, itchy patch on the side of my neck looked at. It was a rash that wouldn’t clear up; I tried everything, including witch hazel, isopropyl alcohol, iodine, Merthiolate, mercurochrome, and other home remedies that didn’t work at all; the damn thing just kept itching and itching and getting bigger.When I first saw it, it was about the size of a pinky fingernail, but, after a couple of months, it was now about the size of a dime, an...

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Night Of The Wolf

Weekly Contest #326

Night Of The WolfPhillip G. OwensI had just buried my mother; she was sixty-two and died of cancer. My father, ten years her senior, was having a hard time accepting her death as I was, and even though she was buried on December 5, I suggested we go to our lakeside vacation cabin in Lower Michigan, “just to get away from it all.” He readily agreed, so on December, 8, we left our mid-sized, Central Indiana town and headed north.We got there at about ten o’clock that night and after a light dinner, we bedded down for a good night’s sleep.There...

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The Astral Projectionist

Johnny Bradshaw was sitting in his air-conditioned room, wistfully staring out of his window, remembering how it all was before it all came crashing down. He had everything he ever wanted; his own very successful business, his own house, a nice pickup truck, a large boat, a luxury car, a vacation home in the mountains overlooking a lake in a valley, a stock racing car, and all of it completely paid for, not a cent owed on anything.Then, he met Melanie, the most beautiful woman in the world. She had dimples in her cheeks that were so deep you...

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