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Stories

Borrowed Smoke

Dec 2025

Bristol Noir

A man haunted by a dead girl and a borrowed cigarette repays his debts under a bridge at rush hour.

Bad Brett

Dec 2025

Literary Garage

Two sixteen-year-olds steal a brick of cocaine, but only one of them has an exit plan.

North Country

Jan 2026

Revolution John

A woman walks into a dive bar looking for what her jailed boyfriend left behind — and finds it.

Mona

Feb 2026

Pistol Jim Press

An unlicensed PI flies to Tijuana to rescue his high school sweetheart, only to learn some people can't be saved twice.

Redline

Feb 2026

Bending Genres

A seventeen-year-old with a Sebring, a thermos of rum, and an unanswered text races toward the only ending he can't outrun.

Des Moines

Mar 2026

Villain Era

A bikini bartender, a rigged heist, and a man who should have known better than to leave her breathing.

Blind as a Bat

Mar 2026

Underbelly Press

A blind safecracker takes one last job, but the only thing waiting inside is the setup he never saw coming.

Fresh Fades

Mar 2026

Cowboy Jamboree

A seventeen-year-old suburban kid gets tangled up with his friend's girl, and what starts as a harmless summer fling builds toward a reckoning he's not sure he's ready for.

Unscathed

Mar 2026

Trash Cat Lit

A young man pieces together the night a convenience store robbery cost him the person he loved most.

My Hero

Apr 2026

Close to the Bone

A lonely man with a rusty .22 will do anything for the woman who makes him feel whole — and she's counting on it.

Clyde

Apr 2026

101 Words

A lonely man pours two fingers of bourbon and drinks with the ghost of the woman who lied to him.

Ex-Thief

Apr 2026

Bristol Noir

A man trying to go straight discovers that leaving the life is easier than the life leaving him.

Door Number Three

May 2026

Dodo Eraser

A young man looks back on a volatile first love — the kind that burns bright, leaves marks, and finally makes a terrible kind of sense.

Golden Child

May 2026

Rock and a Hard Place (Stone's Throw)

A high school basketball star, the kid in his shadow, and one trip to the city that changes everything.

Bobby Plays The Blues

May 2026

Punk Noir

A rock frontman traces the arc of a friendship he outgrew and a betrayal he can't quite name.

Dream of Jeannie

May 2026

Hawkeye

Three friends on the run after a botched score. A story about bad decisions, borrowed time, and what gets left behind.

Saltwater and Smoke

May 2026

Bunker Squirrels

A man with blood on his hands spots a woman set to collect.

Big League Chew

June 2026

Flash Flood Magazine

An old friend shows up strung out, and loyalty becomes its own kind of betrayal.

Sam's Lost

June 2026

Mythic Picnic

A parent watches helplessly as addiction steals their son.

Starfish

June 2026

Yellow Mama

A spa owner's worst nightmare isn't the dead client on her cloud bed — it's the ten-million-dollar life insurance policy with her name on it.

Snakeskin

June 2026

Across the Margin

A man's wife confronts him with a stranger's wallet and a news headline, forcing him to choose between one last lie and the truth about who he really is.

Light and Sweet

June 2026

Literary Garage

A bridge worker, gutted by the loss of his wife, gets pulled into an uptown drug handoff

Purple Foam

June 2026

Roi Faineant

A young car wash worker chasing easy money and a better future watches his life unravel over the course of a single shift.

Carmelita

July 2026

"Bad Intentions: Crime Fiction inspired by Warren Zevon" - by Literary Garage

A nineteen year old kid gets more than he bargained for when a chance encounter at a strip club leads him into the orbit of a woman he can't forget, Carmelita.

Tall Medium Short

June 2026

Some Words

A young townie haunting a college bar relives the night a gymnast named Cassidy showed him something real — and how quickly it slipped away.

Lady's Secret

July 2026

The Yard Crime Blog

A gambling skiptracer agrees to find an old friend’s missing son for free, but the job quickly turns into a dangerous bet he may not walk away from.

© 2026 by J.Binger

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