Alex Carrick’s Blog

Liz Stuckey’s marriage to her husband, Brian, was not without its rewards. First, there was their daughter Abby who was a delightful child of eight and accounted for much of Liz’ appreciation of life. Then there was her comfortable existence in the suburbs, with a 3,000 square-foot home and a Lexus in the driveway. Of [...]

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Now that he was dead, Norman Watts was in possession of certain information that someone in the living world would have given an arm and a leg to discover. Forget Halloween or Dia de los Muertos or any of those other days of the year when the departed are supposed to be revered. They might have been [...]

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Pedro Martinez had entered the United States illegally. There was no denying that fact. He was part of a group of 20 individuals brought over in the false back of an 18-wheeler from Mexico in early spring two years ago. To pay for the privilege, he made a cash contribution to his wife’s distant cousin, [...]

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Frank had learned how to control his dreams. He had never experienced nightmares before. That’s why the past several months were so disturbing for him.
 
His power over dreams had first come when he was a little boy. He’d seen a magazine photo of Michelangelo’s famous scene on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in [...]

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The devil and God were having lunch at the Zeus and Apollo restaurant on the Danforth in Toronto. The devil was partial to Greek food and, while God preferred Middle Eastern fare, He was content to let the devil have his way.

The two didn’t like each other much. But God didn’t see how [...]

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