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While at a Starbucks inside a Target department store in midtown Charlotte, the author (Agent 33) overhears an interesting conversation at an adjacent table between a writer and a possible literary agent. The bizarrely unique techniques that this now-published writer used to get his first novel in...

Three familiar agents look for an Asian grocery store on a tranquil autumn afternoon in the foothills town of Lenoir (North Carolina, USA). They meet a 'walking man' with a dark appearance in a store. Later, they see him again, still walking weighed down with grocery bags, some three miles from...

Author's Note: This story is NOT for the faint of heart. If you cannot handle the greusome truth of what one human being can do to another, then this story is NOT for you. Read at your own peril.

Agents 32 and 33 go to Carolina Beach on Thanksgiving Day 2014 and check into a nearly vacant oceanfront hotel. All is going ho-hum normal until a man suddenly unlocks their room's door, while both are in compromised positions. Later that night, Agent 33 has a dreadful dream. Was it a replay of a...

English and German scholars try to solve mysterious death of great artist Salvador Dali in his own museum and research supernatural perspectives of his painting named "Burning Giraffe".

On an October day in 2014, in near-uptown Charlotte, a wandering middle-age man accosts the author (Agent 33) at a crosswalk. Seeking directions to Interstate 77. The vagabond, who has a very odd way of speaking is on his way to Florida, a state which he is very excited to visit for the first...

A psychological thriller with an end you can only imagine.

The first set of spelling rules (from 2010-11) for psecret psociety are gathered into this 1600-word short story. A basic sentence grows stranger with every spelling permutation. Of the nine spelling rules presented, only one is 'etched in pstone'."Psharlene, wone kewl majikal ladie with eigh gnu...

Liverpool fans, Agents 32, 33 and 666, go to the LFC - AC Milan preseason game at Bank of America Stadium in uptown Charlotte on Saturday evening, August 2, 2014. They join the parade of mighty Reds fans and chant their way into the colosseum. Violent thunderstorms surround the stadium. However...

Agents 32 and 33 drives to Salisbury (NC, USA) from Charlotte to visit Agent 33's dad at the VA Hospital. They then head back to Charlotte on I-85, stopping at the popular Concord Mills Mall for a frappuccino (after striking out on LFC gear). Once in uptown Charlotte, they sample a micro-brewery...