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Most authors do not mind you emailing them and critiquing them, as long as you keep it civil. I will not allow anyone to talk to me worse than my wife does. That should give you plenty of leeway.
I wrote this for fun. It is way over the top. Pretty close to a parody.
I want to thank all the writers and commenters that gave me permission to mention them in the story, although I couldn't reach PapaToad.
I never heard back from George Anderson, but I borrowed one of his characters. I used her before in another one of my stories. She is from "February Sucks".
I want to thank an unknown Literotica member for proofreading my story and giving me some helpful ideas to make it flow better. He does not wish his name to be known. If I did mention his name, he would have to kill everyone on this website.
I got this idea when I called another more prominent writer for Literotica. I thanked him for his help. I told him I cover his city in my sales territory and would like to take him and his wife out for dinner.
I started laughing and explained my idea to him. He was howling. He said go for it.
Disclaimer: I would never insult another man's wife in any manner. The people below are fictional and do not represent anyone in particular.
The Editor
Be Careful When Responding To An Email
"Hello, yes, I am Captain Mike Moore. Well, I used to be." I looked over at my clock to see it showing; 2:13 A.M. "Who is this?"
"This is Lt. Pascal of homicide Kansas City. I just got a call from Mr. Glen Cromwell. He said you knew him. He wants to confess to murder from almost 50 years ago."
That slapped me in the face. I was wide awake upon hearing the request. "Who is it, honey?" came from my sleepy wife, lying next to me.
I replied, " Just someone asking if I knew someone. Go back to sleep."
"What can I do for you, Lieutenant?" I asked.
"He is asking for you, Sir. He wants to talk to you about a murder that he said he committed in your city. He said you would know all about it, and if you came to Methodist Hospital here in Kansas City, he would tell you the whole story and confess."
"Listen, Lieutenant, I retired over 15 years ago," informing him of my status.
"He said he wouldn't tell us anything unless you came. He told us he didn't have much time left. You better get there as soon as possible. He told me that you are the only one he will confess to. Or he will take it with him to the grave.
Sighing, "I'll be there as soon as possible."
My next call was to Lt. Mike Moore Jr, my son. I explained to him what was going on. And I needed to get to Kansas City asap. I had gotten too old to drive safely at night, and I needed him to take me. He was interested in the case and had nothing going on at the office. He would be glad to drive me.
Kissing my bride of 53 years goodbye, I loaded my bags into Mike's car. He slowly backed out of my driveway, and we took off into the misty pre-dawn morning. I headed out to the hospital.
The William Moore (No relation to me) and Katherine Cromwell deaths was the only case I could never solve. I just knew that son-of-bitch did it, but I just couldn't prove it. It was just a gut feeling I have. And after 40 years on the force as an investigator. You trust your gut!
The coroner said he had no idea how they died. There were drugs and alcohol in their systems but not enough to kill them. They both just died of exposure. Too bad waterboarding is illegal in this country.
Yea, right they just died. Well, in a few hours, I will know how he did it. I headed up Interstate 55 north from Cape Girardeau to St Louis.
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I was twenty-five at the time. I had just been promoted to an investigator. It was a Friday night when I received a call from an officer that was on-site with two dead corpses. (Yea, I know redundant. How else would a corpse be.)
After gathering information from the coroner on site. Both lovers' deaths looked like a drug overdose, but the husband was acting very suspicious.
He was calm, way too, calm. He showed no signs of grief or outrage in finding his wife and the other man in bed when he came home from a business trip. He was sitting on the couch drinking sour mash and coke watching a new Playboy series called "Honey, we have to talk." It is a series about stupid wives wanting to Cuck their husbands. And it never turns out well for them.
"Mr. Glen Cromwell, my name is Sgt. Mike Moore, I would like to talk with you."
He replied, "Can you wait another 5 minutes? I want to see how this bitch gets burned."
To tell you the truth so did I. We just waited for the ending, although it was closer to 15 minutes. It was about some woman who wanted to take a lover, and her husband punched her in the stomach twice. She didn't cheat, and he got his lasagna.
"May I call you Glen?"
"Yes, please do, Sgt."
"What time did you get home tonight?" I asked.
"Around six, I guess. I am a Regional Manager for a gas supply company. I travel to nine different states. Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, and a little of Kansas. I leave out on Monday and get back on Friday.
"You sell gas for cars or gas for industrial use like in those bottles?" I asked
"Like in those bottles," he replied. "The biggest seller is carbon dioxide that carbonates carbonated drinks."
Waiting for a few seconds for effect, I looked him in the eyes. "Well, here is the 64,000 dollar question. Did you know they were having an affair?"
"Yes, I did," he replied. Not given up anything is he, I thought to myself.
"When did you find out?" I asked.
"Tonight." I walked in tonight after being out of town for a week. I found them dead in bed together. So I called the police."
His eyes never wavered. "Glen, you don't look very upset about it."
He dried chucked, "Sgt, I'm sure it will hit me later."
"Did you know her friend?" the Detective asked.
"Yes, I did," he replied
Again shorts answers. It was like pulling wisdom teeth to get answers out of him. I was getting a little annoyed, "Well, how did you know him?"
"I write short stories for a website called 'Literotica.' I got an email one day from him. He wanted to see if I would edit one of his stories. He liked how I wrote. He was impressed with my writing skills.
He sent me a copy to try to edit. God, he was awful. That dumbass didn't know the difference between, your and you're, its, and it's, their, and there, and they're. He was notorious for switching from first to third person. And he couldn't punctuate worth a shit. And his conversation skills were jerky and did not flow well. He was getting around fours on his ratings because people liked his stories. Hell, if the stupid Bastard would just have used Grammarly, he would have received 4.5s.
His first story that I edited for him got him a 4.5. He was ecstatic. A couple of months later, he was traveling through our town, and he wanted to take Katherine and me to supper to thank me. I........"
"Glen, don't say another word. In walked a tall man dressed in his tailored suit. My name is Jim McCabe. I am his lawyer."
Cromwell reached over and shook his hand, "Glad you could make it." "I'll answer his questions, Jim," Cromwell replied. "You just stop me if you don't like the question."
Detective Moore, "Did you call home during the week?
"Yes, I did, but her phone just went to the answering machine. I left messages on the home phone, and she never called me back. You can check it. It is over there."
"Was it normal for her not to call you back?
"Yes, it was. Katherine was a private care nurse, and sometimes we talked every night when I was out of town and sometimes not at all. I only called her a couple of times this week, she never answered or called back. I guess you can pull our phone records to verify what I am saying."
"Yes, I'll do that." I replied, "And I want to see that Literotica site of yours. Do I need to get a subpoena, or will you give me access to your account?"
Cromwell walked to his desk, pulled out a piece of paper, and wrote the information I requested, "Here is my username DaGonBlue, and Password. And here is my email address and this for my computer password. You can take hers if you wish. Is there anything else I can do for you, Sgt.?
"No, not at this time." I requested he didn't leave town.
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