The old man nodded to himself. His chin, white with unshaven whisker stubble, caught and held a piece of loose straw in the stubble when he came away from the stacked bales of hay he was digging between.
Garden Grove: 6 Vandals Strike Again – Stanley by LV Gaudet
Inside the trailer was clear evidence someone had gained entry and gone through files.
Garden Grove: 6 Vandals Strike Again – Dave by LV Gaudet
Dave almost cried himself while he visited some of the men he’d worked with, spending long hours labouring and joking, the casual after work Friday beers shared, and now looking like death hovered within reach.
Garden Grove: 6 Vandals Strike Again – Stanley by LV Gaudet
The large sign at the entrance announcing the coming of sleek and stylish homes and the promise of country-city living in the new Garden Grove Meadows development sported a new and rather rude crudely drawn caricature of what appeared to be intended as the foreman overseeing the job.
Garden Grove: 5 The Coffee Clutch – Vern Lezkowitz by LV Gaudet
There could be no good reason for Vern Lezkowitz to be skulking around Garden Grove in the night.
Garden Grove: 5 The Coffee Clutch – Coffee by LV Gaudet
“If that old Mrs. Crampchet has dementia, then I have six toes,” Mrs. Henderson humphed.
Garden Grove: 5 The Coffee Clutch – The Watcher in the Woods by LV Gaudet
And the secrets those gnarled twisted old trees hide won’t be secret much longer.
Garden Grove: 4 Sick Workers and Senility – Mrs. Crampchet by LV Gaudet
He heard the sound of movement from another room, muttering, and then the heavy clunk of something being dropped. It sounded breakable and very heavy, china or some kind of pottery maybe. It didn’t sound like it broke. She shuffled out from a bedroom in the back of the house. A large heavy vase lay on its side out of sight on the floor behind her where she had dropped it.
Garden Grove: 4 Sick Workers and Senility – The Hospital by LV Gaudet
At the hospital, men groaned in pain and thrashed on gurneys, rolling feebly to vomit furiously into too small jellybean shaped hospital blue plastic dishes.
Garden Grove: 4 Sick Workers and Senility – Bruce Copeland’s Office by LV Gaudet
“Poison? What the hell’d poison an entire crew?” Copeland demanded. “Not what,” Stanley said, “who.”
LV Gaudet, author of dark fiction 