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Duane confesses:"I’ve been writing some haiku lately, working to pare down descriptions to the fewest words that communicate a scene, and thinking about limited animation. These weren’t crime-related, but then I got to thinking about The Five-Two, and this popped into my head. Bang."
DUANE SPURLOCK is related to a long line of long-winded tall tale tellers. Recent books include Airship Hunters, an SF tale co-written with Jim Beard and set in 1897, and Fighting Alaska, a north-western tale set in Alaska during the 1900 gold rush and featuring Wyatt Earp, Rex Beach, and Tex Rickard.
Arm in arm, two men
strolled until someone shot them.
Just father and son.
Elaine reads "Arm in arm...":
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Elaine confesses:"I live in Orlando where the Pulse nightclub shooting happened. In some cultures, it is common for men to walk arm in arm. I thought about what crime could occur if a prejudiced person misinterpreted this affection. Life is perception. Perception and reality can differ."
Ray confesses:"The first paragraph of Chandler's 'Red Wind' is one of the best in literature. He delivers setting, pace, voice, and the main character's attitude without once mentioning any of these things. It's fantastic, and I hope my haiku provides an introduction to this remarkable paragraph."
RAY DANIEL writes mysteries based in and around Boston. He lives in the wilds beyond Rt. 128 where he works the fertile soil of his lawn.
Dylan confesses:"So while my wife and I were at Whole Foods, there's this older couple behind us. He in a Yale t-shirt and she dressed for gardening. They absolutely hated each other, screaming back and forth in a whispery kind of tone. I thought: 'Oh, yeah. Crime scene waiting to happen.'"
WILLIAM DYLAN POWELL writes dark, and often funny, mystery fiction set in Texas. He's the author or co-author of a half-dozen books, and winner of awards from the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Fund and the Mystery Writers of America. Powell's work has been featured in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Beat to a Pulp, Dirty Noir, Pulp Modern, The Flash Fiction Offensive, and a host of fine truck stop bathroom walls across the Texas badlands.
Duane confesses:Pre-Black-Friday stress in the bank, unwilling witness to complaints: yoked by despair, choked by a tightening skein of fees. Everyone in the place slumped with the pressure of holiday economics. I thought about the larcenous methods clever folks might apply as leverage against the weight. The haiku was the result.
DUANE SPURLOCK is a writer and illustrator. His most recent eBook is A Quiet Night in the Dark in LaPlata, Missouri, 1942, which is available for the Kindle. A book he illustrated, The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, written by Brian Showers, won the 2008 Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society. He lives with his family in Kentucky, where they whistle, garden, and tell each other stories.
Michael confesses:Grey winter's day: I'm on San Francisco's Geary Street, past Polk—a haven of transiency. A tree in full bloom. "Why haven't I encountered this before?" I wonder. My eyes are drawn to a wall of scrawls. A poster of a beautiful young man: Gone missing. Hereabouts. The haiku comes.
MICHAEL CHACKO DANIELS, a former community worker and clown, San Franciscan, grew up in Bombay, India. He was a Volunteer In Service To America for five years. His haiku have appeared in Eclectica, Grey Sparrow Journal, and The Battered Suitcase. Book: Morning in Santiniketan (Haiku; Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 2010). Website: http://indiawritingstation.com/.
