Out of Order Detective

By Elizabeth Bruner

Spying on cheating monsters, being kidnapped to the past and chasing after a husband she didn't want who's been abducted by aliens is all part of the job for Eliza Carlisle, PI. This collection of super short stories (under 1500 words each) gives a glimpse into her life and her clients.
Some of the stories have been published before as part of a weekly flash fiction feature but others are unique to this volume.
Stories included are:
Little Green Clients
The Detective and the Archeologist
Spying on Bigfoot's Wife
The Case of the Missing Sparks
Searching for Nessie
To Whom It May Concern
A Wife in Time

• Language: English
• Publisher: ShadowInk Press
• Release date: Aug 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310721632

Elizabeth Bruner

Elizabeth Bruner is a romantic and a lover of fantasy. She can usually be found chasing plot bunnies in Colorado. She tweets occasionally at @BrunerAuthor

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Out of Order Detective © Elizabeth Bruner 2013

All Rights Reserved

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is a coincidence.

Cover by Neil Wells

Little Green Clients

I was closing up early to mark a special anniversary for me when the little green men walked into my office.

I knew who and what they were and it pissed me off because I’d spent the last five years convincing myself they weren’t real and my husband had merely run off with his secretary. Though, his secretary was a big, burly chap and I still ran into him around town occasionally.

There were three little green men and they came to my desk and sat down, looking at me expectantly while I was deciding if I should kick them out of the office or grab one of them and demand my husband back. I’d finally come to the conclusion that these weren’t likely to be the specific aliens responsible for my husband’s abduction when the one in the middle decided to break the silence.

Ms. Carlisle, he said. His voice was strangely staticy and his lips didn’t move right with the sound. We would like to hire you for a case.

Who says I’m for hire? I asked.

The girl in the other room said you hadn’t had a case in months. We will pay in cash appropriate for this world.

Great, I thought. Brenda’s been talking to people again. I really only hired her to keep people out of here and answer the phone. So what if I hadn’t had a case in months, I was busy enough, and proof that I wasn’t crazy had just walked into my office. Hmm, maybe I should buy her a new bottle of nail polish for that.

She talks too much, I said. What do you want?

They looked at each other and started talking rapidly in their own language to each other.

We wish to hire you to solve a case for us, the one in the middle finally said and the other two nodded.

"That would be the normal reason