G. S. Norwood’s Deep Ellum Pawn novelette (© 2019 by G. S. Norwood) is now available! We published this sample scene and two others on successive weeks. Read them here for free, or buy the entire novelette for Kindle.

Golden Fiddle (This is a teaser sample)

The guy on the other side of the counter shifted from foot to foot, taking quick swipes at his streaming nose with the cuff of his beige flannel shirt. His eyes, half-hidden by greasy blond bangs, darted from side to side, as if he was afraid Hell Hounds would appear at any moment, hot on his trail.

God knows, the Hounds wouldn’t have any trouble following his scent. He reeked of sweat, adrenaline, and old urine.

I looked from him to the battered violin case he’d shoved across my sales counter toward me.  I was pretty sure what I’d find inside.

“Two hundred bucks,” I said.

“You haven’t even looked at it!”

“One fifty.”

“But it’s gold!”

Of course it was. “One hundred. Take it or leave it.”

“That’s not fair! It’s worth lots more than that! You don’t understand!”

I did understand . . .

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G. S. Norwood’s Deep Ellum Pawn novelette Is now available for Kindle. We hope you enjoyed this sneak peek. If you did, you could move on to Scene Two, or just buy the book.

IMAGE: The image at the beginning of today’s post is a detail from the cover art, which is © 2019 by Chaz Kemp.