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Tag: Matthew Sorrento

“Hard Case Crime, December 2020: Unlikely Masters” by Matthew Sorrento

On a few surprising releases from the noir fiction mainstay. Readers of the Hard Case Crime series are rarely unsatisfied and regularly served a nice surprise. On the centennial Ray Bradbury’s birth came one, in the form or a collection of his crime fiction. With the author a formative one for so many (myself included), […]

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“The Girlfriend Problem” by Matthew Sorrento

And I would kill for him, still would, ever since we met. Do it or I’ll kill you, he told me. Times like this he’d turn on me, hit me. Didn’t matter what we’re doing, getting smokes, or dope, or him smashing me in bed. With him, it’s always there. You’re going in with me,he said, […]

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