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The Falling – Chapter Eighteen

EIGHTEEN: Hell’s Kitchen – Midtown, 1941 Detective Broome sifted through the smoky rubble. Already, whatever evidence might have been recovered would probably be nothing more than ash anyway. Still, he kept digging. Buster Broome had lived in the same apartment for five years now, ever since he got his badge. He felt like he’d been […]

The Falling – Chapter Seventeen

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Midtown Comics The taxi pulled up right outside the entrance to Midtown Comics. Sheldon immediately recognized the images of Superman, Spider-Man and the Hulk on the store’s second floor windows, but he was unsure about most of the other colorful characters. He’d never read a single comic book in his life, and he […]

The Falling – Chapter Sixteen

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Manhattan An hour later, Patrick and Sheldon were waiting under the blue awning of the Beacon Hotel. The morning’s snow had already been swept off the awning by the hotel maintenance crew. Sheldon was wearing an I©NY t-shirt under his winter coat; the white cotton shirt was still so new that it hurt […]

The Falling – Chapter Fifteen

PART III – The Revenge CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Tom’s Restaurant – Morningside Heights ONE WEEK LATER. When winter hits Manhattan its attack is unrelenting. What begins as a cleansing snowfall blanketing even the ugliest streets with a white serenity soon turns into a chaotic slop of wet, gray grunge and grit. The snow continues its pursuit […]

The Falling – Chapter Fourteen

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Mercury Agency – Midtown Juliana Florentine could have been a model. She was gorgeous; men couldn’t walk straight around her. And she knew it. Her corn-colored hair was as straight as the Nebraska wheat fields where she grew up. Her flawless skin lacked even a freckle and her lips could have doubled […]

The Falling – Chapter Thirteen

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Pendulum Publishing – Midtown “Kate? Kate, are you all right?” The ‘WE ARE HAPPY TO SERVE YOU’ slogan on the paper coffee cup stole Kate’s attention away from where it should have been. She was sitting in the middle of a one-on-one meeting she had initiated with Troy “The Shark” Dunlop, but she […]

The Falling – Chapter Twelve

CHAPTER TWELVE: Midtown Comics Let me tell you a bit more about Jesse Classen. One day into the job at Midtown Comics, he had already felt as though he belonged there. One week into the job, Jesse had begun to worry about having made another mistake; that seemed to be how his brain was wired. […]

Master of My Domain

I now officially own rtimmorris.com! I hope this will help create a bit more traffic and will also get me posting a bit more regularly to maintain some sort of respectability. We’ll see! Tagged: rtimmorris.com

100 Favorite Movies

With my most recent posts, I listed my Top-6 Favorite Movies and a few more of my personal faves. Since there’s so many other great movies out there (and because I happen to be in the mood to make a big list) I thought I’d share this: a Top-100. These are DEFINITELY NOT in any […]

My Favorite Movies

All right, I teased you with some of my all-time favorite films, but now it’s time to get serious and deliver on the promise of my Top-6. Again, this is in no way my opinion on the GREATEST FILMS OF ALL-TIME, these are merely the ones that I could watch endlessly without ever tiring of […]