Poodle Stew

Poodle Stew

A Noir Short Story

Homicide - Private Investigation - Dark Humor - Detective

A young woman lies dead in the street, her body opened with deliberate cruelty. Former detective Hunter B. Phillips no longer works homicide—but some scenes refuse to let go.

Drawn back into the city's dark pulse, Hunter walks the line between detachment and recognition, between what he's seen and what he's lost. Fear is spreading faster than the papers, and innocence is just another assumption people make when the body is young and beautiful.

Poodle Stew is a hard-edged noir story about violence, memory, and the quiet damage that never quite heals.4,300+ Words