Never Stiff Your Bartender
By J.C. Bruce Never stiff your bartender. That’s the lesson from how police were able to find and arrest the hooligans who burned Key West’s...
Strange Currents, Mister Manners Win Awards
The Florida Writers Association, the state's largest and most prestigious literary organization, has announced that two novels by J.C. Bruce -- Strange Currents and Mister...
In Opa-locka You Can Now Drop Your Drawers With Impunity
[caption id="attachment_923" align="aligncenter" width="300"] No ifs ands or butts in Opa-locka[/caption] For years, the south Florida city of Opa-locka, already one of the most unusual...
Fowl Play at Louisiana Bank Sends Police on Wild Hunt
Don’t call it a manhunt. It’s a chicken hunt. Police in Walker, Louisiana are scratching around for a pesky fowl who has been harassing bank...
Dateline Florida: Masking the Gunshine State’s Problems
By J.C. Bruce I have been assigned by Tropic Press to write this new periodic dispatch from the Gunshine State, an effort to provide a...
Woman Alarmed by Mysterious Krakow Pastry Lizard
By Alexander Strange This is a test. There are two images accompanying this article. One is a photograph of an iguana, a kind of lizard. The...
Coronavirus in Florida Claims an Entire City but the Mermaids Survived
Thousands of lives have been lost in Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic and now the disease has claimed an entire city. Thankfully, the mermaids...
The Grim Reaper Awaits You on Your Next Beach Excursion
The number of coronavirus cases and fatalities in Florida is at its peak, so what better time to drop restrictions on social distancing and open...
Sheriff’s Deputies Rush to Call for Help, but it Didn’t Add Up
“Help…Please…Get me out of here.” That’s the lettering on a yellow sheet of paper a maintenance worker saw in an apartment window in Naples, Florida....