Ey, big hero… … squawks an unsurprisingly irate Ira the Nurse, just short of a shriek at Dirk Dickerson, who stands across the room with a shoulder leant against a…

It’s just a fucking drycleaning ticket, a lousy sales receipt… So why does Step keep bringing it up? What did he expect the Heavy Hebe to answer about it when…

At one time or another in Kyiv, but mostly at the same time, back then, in the glory days, before it all started to fall apart and miraculously transmogrify into…

Cowering in fear, terrified, the Heavy Hebe backs himself into a corner down inside one of the secret chambers of labyrinthine sublevel 2 under Kyiv’s central synagogue on Shota Rustaveli…

Other than that, he awaits the occasion. And now, it’s here… To Mack’s left, John Smith rises up the path like a bug swarm of old-time TV static. His gray-suited…

Ten, hell, even five years ago, jogging up all those metal stairs wasn’t a problem. Winded, though he’s made it to the top of the hill. He roots his broad,…

I am The Rook. I killed Doctor Woo. I need no gun. I need no knife or any contrivance of man. No implements, no needles, no inventions. I need no…

The confrontation begins “So, it’s true…” “What’s that, Kowalski?” “Just exactly what that critical and dismissive Story Notice to your heretofore groundbreaking five-part ‘Woo Kill’ series in Kyiv Unedited said…

Steve Kowalski heads to a sleazy strip bar on Kyiv’s left bank War or no war, a sexually frustrated Steve Kowalski can no longer restrain himself from heading to the…