When you grab the wife of a small-time construction company owner, make sure he's not from the family; and while your at it, make sure he isn't smarter than you are. Natalie's husband isn't exactly Michael Corleone, but he has a connection or two he can call on in a pinch. Remastered, featuring music by Dreamcrush.

The $300,000 Finger - J. David Core

With a profound interest in religion, liberal politics and humor, Dave began writing in High School and has not given up on it since. His first professional writing jobs came while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he was hired to create political cartoons for "The Pitt News" & to write humor pieces for "Smile Magazine." 

Dave has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books and to the Western online anthology, "Elbow Creek." Dave’s science fiction novel, "Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions," is available from writewordsinc.com. Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, OH with his beautiful girlfriend. 

He enjoys participating in local community events and visiting with his three adult children and his grandkids. He is the author of the Lupa Schwartz series of mystery novels.  Find out more about his books or sign up for his email list by visiting tinyurl.com/lupalanding
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Music by Kevin MacLeod used under creative commons 3.0 license courtesy of Incompetech.com

"Riptide"by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Kafka, That's Not What I Said" by Dreamcrush used with permission.

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Sometimes fitting in to a high school clique can be a big pain. Other times, it can be worse. The best laid plans of mice and high school kids oft times go awry. Sometimes with deadly results. Remastered, featuring music by Dreamcrush

The Hazing on Brume Lane - J. David Core

With a profound interest in religion, liberal politics and humor, Dave began writing in High School and has not given up on it since. His first professional writing jobs came while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he was hired to create political cartoons for "The Pitt News" & to write humor pieces for "Smile Magazine." 

Dave has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books and to the Western online anthology, "Elbow Creek." Dave’s science fiction novel, "Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions," is available from writewordsinc.com. Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, OH with his beautiful girlfriend. 

He enjoys participating in local community events and visiting with his three adult children and his grandkids. He is the author of the Lupa Schwartz series of mystery novels.  Find out more about his books or sign up for his email list by visiting tinyurl.com/lupalanding
​
Music by Kevin MacLeod used under creative commons 3.0 license courtesy of Incompetech.com

"Riptide"by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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"Darkest Kiss" by Dreamcrush used with permission.

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Two men find themselves at a standoff during a shootout on a residential inner-city street. Narrated by one of the shooters, the story follows his train of thought as he tries to survive the gunplay without harming any innocent standers-by. Remastered, featuring music by Dreamcrush.

That You Wilhelm - J. David Core

With a profound interest in religion, liberal politics and humor, Dave began writing in High School and has not given up on it since. His first professional writing jobs came while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he was hired to create political cartoons for "The Pitt News" & to write humor pieces for "Smile Magazine." 

Dave has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books and to the Western online anthology, "Elbow Creek." Dave’s science fiction novel, "Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions," is available from writewordsinc.com. Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, OH with his beautiful girlfriend. 

He enjoys participating in local community events and visiting with his three adult children and his grandkids. He is the author of the Lupa Schwartz series of mystery novels.  Find out more about his books or sign up for his email list by visiting tinyurl.com/lupalanding
​
Music by Kevin MacLeod used under creative commons 3.0 license courtesy of Incompetech.com

"Riptide"by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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"Inoculation" by Dreamcrush used with permission.

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For the past few months, I have been hard at work remastering the audio recordings I made for this podcast of the episodes that appear in my crime story collection, 8 Tales of Noir. Each of those stories originally aired with royalty free music courtesy of Incompetech.com. However, I have decided that I am going to produce an audio-book version, and I wish to change out that music for original music by my late friend, Mark J. Miller.

Mark was a writer, a musician, a singer, and a teacher. He died last year after a brief illness which was never properly diagnosed, but which quickly spread to his blood causing sepsis. His loss is still jarring. So in Mark's honor, I got permission from his family to use music he recorded for his one-man project which he called Dreamcrush. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local charity he was involved with called Team Mojo.

Team Mojo is an NPO which provides music lessons free-of-charge to underprivileged youth. You can lean more about them by visiting their website at teammojofoundation.org. 

The audiobook version of the cover features a photo-manipulation I made of a photo I shot of my then teenage daughter. The ebook cover also featured a photo I shot of my daughter, or at least her left arm. 

​Anyway, for the next several weeks, I will be podcasting the stories again, each re-leveled, cleaned up, and featuring the music of Dreamcrush. The first episode drops September 16. Enjoy.