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Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Seven units facing each other. In the last cell at the bottom of the narrow corridor, three men sat huddled in whispered conversation. Glynn Taft, in for murdering his stepfather, had been in prison for nineteen years. Prison legend has it, he killed the man savagely, tearing out the victim's throat with his teeth. Inmates called him, "Animal." His two friends were exact opposites of each other. One, tall and skinny while the other was short and swarthy. Both had chequered prison careers, more than half  of their adult life gone. Spent serving sentences in various prisons for violent offences and armed robberies. All three, possessed cunning, guile and manipulative behaviour. Probably honed by their years in institutions...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Stories are all works of fiction. Names, characters, place and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events and places is totally coincidental It took Fafo three weeks to completely trust the old boy. His name was Sammy Calvert and he had been incarcerated in various prisons for eight years. Although the authorities advice inmates not to disclose the nature of their offence, inmates view those who are reluctant to talk about their cases with a high level of suspicion. No prisoner wants to associate with a rapist or a child molester. They are considered the lowest of the low in prisons and are routinely subjected to mistreatment, harassment and savage beatings fr...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Stories are all works of fiction. Names, characters, place and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events and places is totally coincidental "Hey stinky!" the voice came from somewhere on his left. Fafo looked up. It was Glynn Taft, six feet two inches, bald, with a beard embedded with bits of food. The dour odour that still clung to Fafo like a cloud seem to be attracting the wrong kind of people. He ignored Glynn and his two convict friends, notorious troublemakers everyone avoided. He found sitting in the open like now helped to dissipate the smell coming from the cruel pouch around his neck. Not responding to Glynn's taunt seemed a mistake, t...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Stories are all works of fiction. Names, characters, place and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events and places is totally coincidental Fafo sat alone and isolated on the edge of the prison football field. His fellow convicts walked by him in twos and threes. A match was in progress between two wings within the medium category prison. Only a small number of spectators watched the match in progress. Some of the prisoners gave him a wide berth as they passed by him. A few sniggered, sneaked a peek at him and covered their noses as they walked by. The leather pouch was back around his neck. He seemed resigned to that fact now, deciding to accept  that life wou...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! The Five Scientifically Proven Reasons! Bella DePaulo, a psychologist and the author of "singled Out" gives five scientifically proven reasons why it's better to be single. In a study that followed 9000 middle aged adults for eight years, rates of heart disease were lowest among those who had never been married and all the statuses that came from getting married, were significantly worse off. Those who had never married were fitter and seemed to exercise more. Singles were stronger socially because married people are less likely than single people to help, support, visit and maintain contact with friends, family and neighbours. People who can embrace being single are less likely to end up se...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Stories are all works of fiction. Names, characters, place and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events and places is totally coincidental The custody sergeant in charge of the dingy tomblike cells below the courtroom, was having an informal conversation with some colleagues in the main reception area; located next to the spiral staircase leading up to the courts above. He was a big pudgy fellow with a sallow complexion; probably due to the many years of working in an environment that saw little sunlight. Sergeant Emmanuel Gross considered himself lucky to have such a cushy job, supervising the herding of prisoners in and out of the cells, receiving, dispat...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Stories are all works of fiction. Names, characters, place and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events and places is totally coincidental 4 Fafo stared hard at the charm that seems to have taken on a mischievous life of it's own. The many events that now seemed to have had a bearing on this thing that he now holds in his hands, had become too numerous to dismiss as coincidence. The open and shut case that both the Customs people and the police thought they had, almost disintegrated before their very eyes. The lead detective charged with prosecuting Fafo suffered a nervous breakdown. Detective Sergeant Eric Fisher's problems began, when an urgent r...