Illustration for "A Bottle of Whiskey" Copyright (c) 2016, Luke Spooner. Used under license.

A Bottle of Whiskey


Story by Andrew Warburton

Illustration by L. A. Spooner


Lisa was once the queen of the local stage. Now she was a drunken, tired, has-been with her own ghost story. Much speculation has been made surrounding her abusive husband’s “accidental” death. Finally Lisa would tell her story, and her husband would make a final appearance.


Read A Bottle of Whiskey in Crimson Streets #1: A Story A Week and Other Tales, available from Amazon, the Kindle Store, the iBooks Store, or wherever hard-boiled and pulp paperbacks are sold.

Crimson Streets #1 CoverCrimson Streets #1:“A Story A Week” and Other Tales presents 26 riveting stories inspired by the classic pulp magazines of yesteryear. Beginning with the Twilight Zone-inspired tale “A Story A Week” and ending with the mystical, hard-boiled detective story “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished,” Crimson Streets spans the gamut of gritty crime stories, weird horror tales, and heroic adventures that set the pulps apart as a distinct category of literature.
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