A semi-autobiographical story of a boy trying to find a place of his own in a life of constant motion and bursts of violence.
On the Road to Find Out
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By Bill Cameron
Featuring “Sunlight Nocturne,” a Skin Kadash Short StoryPuppy Love Noir
Three stories about the dark side of young love.
The Practical Christmas
When Mom takes up with a fixer-upper, two kids find out what life with an honest-to-goodness outlaw is really all about: the loot.
The Princess of Felony Flats
A mysterious dwarf makes a risky play for the statuesque consort of a drug kingpin in a hardboiled retelling of a classic fairy tale.
Coffee, Black
Skin Kadash investigates vandalism at a Portland coffee shop with the help of Ruby Jane, and finds more than he bargained for.
Motion
Distance is magic – sometimes black, sometimes white. Sometimes a little of both. I see this place or that and I think, I could be from there. Lots of places. I build them up in my mind. Mountains. I like the sensation of driving through mountains late at night, light…
Slice of Pie
A cynical and overprotective son tries to save his mother from her own good nature, with violent results.
Kept Woman
Sometimes what we see in other people is only a dark reflection of ourselves.
The Failure of the Persistence of Memory
The dreams that come when the sun is white and the air is still and buzzing and my head slips off an old pillow that has fallen into the light These are the dreams that I attend with pleasure. Sometimes fear. I smell languor in the trees beside a torpid lake. Leaves…
About BCMystery
When not tending his chickens, BCMystery shapes unruly words into captivating people caught in harrowing situations. As Bill Cameron, his work includes the critically-acclaimed Skin Kadash mysteries and, as W.H. Cameron, the high desert mystery Crossroad. He’s presently at work on a historical mystery set on the Oregon coast.