Homicide: Now and Then

By David Halliday

Death comes in the quiet of our thoughts. When we were looking the wrong way. At the moon being smothered by a cloud. It begins in panic. Thrashing out. We want to live. Something standing over us. Waiting for our last breath. Murder. Now and then.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Halliday
• Release date: Oct 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452374246

David Halliday

I have published poems, short stories, plays, art works in reviews and publications across the United States and Canada. I have several published books:murder by Coach House Press. This book is a series of poems and illustrations set up like scenes in a movie, describing the murder, trial, and mob execution of an innocent man. Winner of the 2001 Eppie for poetry.The Black Bird by. The Porcupine’s Quill. This is a book of poems, illustrations and short prose pieces describing the fictional making of the John Huston film, The Maltese Falcon.Making Movies by Press Porcepic. This is a book of long poems, interviews, short fiction pieces about a fictional BBC documentary about a fictional Canadian film maker, Samuel Bremmer and his company of actors and colleagues. It follows his career through the creation of a series of his movies.Church Street is Burning, a book of poems, was a finalist in the 2002 Eppie for poetry.The God of Six Points, published by Double-dragon-ebooks. A man who believes he is a god believes he has murdered one of his subjects.Sleeping Beauty, published by LTD ebooks.com is a murder mystery. A woman lands in a small village where the only escape is to be murdered. Finalist in the 2003 Dream Realm Awards. Winner of the 2004 IP Book Awards.The Hole, published by LTD ebooks is one in a series of cop stories. There are unusual happenings in the quiet suburb of Islington. People have begun to disappear. And they have been disappearing for generations. For the soon to retire Sam Kelly, this is his last case as a detective. All the clues point to a mysterious hole, which appears to have no bottom.In 2007 I was short listed for the C.B.C. Literary Contest in poetry.

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Homicide: Now and Then

by David Halliday

Homicide: Now and Then

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Copyright 2010 David Halliday

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He used to sit beside me in the office humming

the theme from the original Star Trek.

He was handsome, smart, very funny.

He explained at his trial that the knives in the drawer

were screaming at him

Kill her!

HOMICIDE: November 3, 1948

‘She was standing there, hands in her back pockets, leaning against a tree. Bold as the sun. The top three buttons of her blouse were undone. Even though it was almost noon, the moon was smitten. I stood there confused and burning up in the shade.’

Marshall Johnson, 32, Eau Claire roofer, has admitted in a signed statement