crime fiction

Chapter 1 – The greasy aroma of synth-burgers and cheap coffee hung heavy in the air, another night winding down at the ♥♥♥♥ Diner. I wiped down the countertop, glancing at the familiar faces huddled in the corner booth, ignoring the rattling coffee machine as it prepared coffee with Synthetic...

As I said I would do in one of my Usagi Yojimbo reading posts, I have now gotten to do a let's watch thread of the 1987 to 1996 animated series by, what is known today as, Fred Wolf Films that coined taglines like Turtle Power and Heroes in a Half-Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! In memory...

Fast Drive! Seva felt the world. Her rider, Dragnacht, sent vibrations running up from the base of her spine on the driver's seat, from the soles of her feet resting on the floor, and up from her hands that were gripping the steering wheel for dear life. Dragnacht hummed with anticipation and...

"That was amazing!" You shouted, unable to contain the excitement that surged through me. Your parents laughed, their joy filling the cool Gotham air. You had just left the theater—The Mark of Zorro—a hero with a mask and a mission. You could still feel the thrill of the adventure pulsing in...

IN THE NEAR FUTURE - THE BOUNDARIES OF NATIONALITY AND CONCIOUSNESS ARE DEFINED BY CORPORATE NETWORKS THE MASSES EXIST IN A HYPERPROLETARIETIZED STATE WITHOUT HOPE OF ESCAPE RENDERED REDUNDANT BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE CORPORATION CAN BE FOUND AS FAR AS DISTANT WORLDS AND...

'Mr Gold,' Jed Midnight pronounced sonorously, 'you are undoubtedly the greatest thing in crime since Cain invented murder and used it on Abel.' He paused and added emphatically, 'I shall count it an honour to be associated with you in this enterprise.' -Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Hello and...

Marina Päänni Part One The Vigilante Created with Photorealistic Portrait Generator Full Image (2400x3200px 2.23 MB) Caution: This story includes content that some readers might find disturbing, such as: violence, murder, various other felonies, mental issues, serious physical disease...

Long time lurker here, after some time, I'm doing my first quest about the criminal underworld and needing to be establish a Crime Syndicate at the expense of other organize crimes during a time where heroism as at all-time low after a certain event made heroes and their organizations near...

Gotham The most wretched city in the entirety of the country, a nightmare only held aloft by the fact that it plays home to the estates of some of the oldest of old money known to the continent. Only two things matter in Gotham. Money and power. It’s an environment that breaks people. And...

Alvin was never one for fighting. Hell, he hated the thought of getting his nose broken or even having his fingernail cracked. Even wooden splinters from the wheelbarrows or sparks from the arctech wagons frightened him, despite being nearly twenty-five years old. So why was he in the midst of...

Prologue The bodies were cold, and they had been for quite a while. The crowds of onlookers, originally just a smattering of children watching from across the street — eyes wide, expressions blank and knees drawn up to the chest — had evolved into most of the neighborhood finally approaching...

The bodies were cold, and they had been for quite a while. What had previously been a collection of school kids watching from across the street–eyes wide, expressions blank and knees drawn up to the chest–had evolved into most of the neighborhood finally approaching the corpse that had been...

Content Warning: Sexuality as a primary motivator (played for laughs but it will be crass humor) Content Warning: Unhealthy Obsessive behavior (Don't simp, go meet a real person who wants to touch your genitals please)...

I personally have been infatuated with science and am currently working towards a high-energy physics master's, and one of my favorite pastimes is reading science fiction novels. Novels such as Tau Zero and The Quantum Magician captivated my motivation to start my own work in the hard science...

Welcome to gotham. Where the sun shines and the moon does whatever it does. Your just a bunch of down on their luck folk needing some cash. So you decided to form a gang. But unable to decide how the group should be organised you decided to just discuss your plans and collectively decide your...

Isekai, Go Home! An Anti-Isekai, Isekai Fantasy Inquisition Quest “This world is not your playground anymore”. These were the great words said by the first Lord Inquisitor and our founder, Toma Tormadeus, on the day that the infamous Isekai, Katsuro the Destroyer was finally slain and the...

I woke up at around ten thirty in the morning, to the sound of my alarm and someone shouting in the apartment next to mine. Weighed down by last night's mistakes, alcohol-based and not, I crawled miserably out of my bed and under the shower for a quick scrub down. Through my apartment's thin...

Hub City, State of Canton, 1979: Relief mixed with general exhaustion as Carter finally made his way through the airport. A ten hour flight on the soonest plane away from London had hardly been ideal. He stifled a yawn as he went through the terminal, suitcase very light in hand. It was all he...

Panau is freedom, invention, and the pushing of boundaries. Panau, gateway between the Continent and Novo Mundi! Where industrial machines refashion the world within and without, the first truly free nation on the Spine, where the staid rule of kings and emperors give way for vital men of...

Authors Note: I love the Yakuza Series. I love its wackiness, its seriousness, how it's tone varies to cover so many topics and subjects. From the myth of the neighbourhood Yakuza clashing with the brutal criminal reality, from Karoake to gang wars. But for such a diverse cast, despite its...

The Big, Wide Galaxy “Big thieves hang little ones.” The galaxy is unified under the Republic, the ancient state whose dead hand rests on every world from shining Coruscant to the Outer Rim. For more than a thousand years the Republic has ruled, the Senate and the great core systems draining...

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you." - C.S Lewis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is a hero? According to the Oxford Dictionary, Hero: a person who is admired or idealized for...

Disclaimer: Please be noted that QM does not approve or endorse any kind of organized criminal activities and this quest is just a work of fiction. ===== Kagauchi-gumi used to be the largest Yakuza group in Tokyo, and the most feared in the Japanese criminal underworld. At its peak, it boasted...

Hello sufficient velocity. This is a quest idea I wanted to run for a while but did not know if I could pull this off. But when has my lack of talent ever stopped me from making a stupid decision? Anyways, this quest is to see how (or if) you can take over the world Brockton Bay as a mundane...

So, I've been reading a book about the online drug lord Jean-Paul leRoux, who operated largely out of the Philippines though his first drug call center was in Tel Aliv. He took advantage of the corruption in the Philippines to make people and problems disappear, he had several people murdered...