A new little story of mine, a jeu d’esprit, a micro-story (a three-pager), called “A Noir Romance” has just come out in the fall issue 2014 (yes, a bit late) of the Windsor Review, a special Alice Munro issue. This is a print magazine, so you’ll have to go buy a copy to read the whole story. This issue of WR is blessed with work from several other Numéro Cinq bad girls and boys, including Marty Gervais, Karen Mulhallen, John B. Lee, and Amber Homeniuk.
Here’s a bit from the story, the opening lines.
“The short one, you say?”
“Yes. I believe that’s him. He had a mask. It was dark in my bedroom.”
“He had a mask.”
“Yes, sir.”
“But it was definitely the short one, you say?”
“He had a mask, but he was short just like the one in the middle.”
“The short one.”
“He had that look, you know. Short. I was wearing my nightie and putting cold cream on.”
“In the dark.”
“Yes. I’m really rather sure it’s the short one. He looks like a man who would steal up on women in their bedrooms.”
“Because?”
“Well, he has that look. Short. Shortness. Like the one in my bedroom.”
“Ma’am, the short one is an officer from the precinct. He picked you up and drove you here.”
“No. I would have recognized him.”
“He’s a police officer.”
“No, sir. It’s the man in my bedroom.”
“Because he’s short.”
—from “A Noir Romance” by Douglas Glover @ the Windsor Review