A SMILE, REFLECTING By ~ Lily ChildsShe’s seeing as though through a mask, its hugging surface woven of fine leather and peeking with thorns. Woe betide the kissing man who wi...
* AT THE BIJOU? *Grand ReOpening This Weekend with a *STAR* to light the firmaments past regular spots & kleigs. WHO? Youll have to come and spree . . . Be there or be square Toots...
I wrote this for my loving and romantic mother several months after she lost her fella and I lost my father. Less than two months later, I said farewell to her for the last time as well.Theyre ...
wHo dOnE iT?cAn yOu FiGgEr?Jes leave your surmisals in da comments joint. Theres a prize on the line. A big heist came through. It could happen to You.Ghead. Guess.Ya know ya wants to.Who left the pe...
YES!Sunday!Oscars Greatest Night!Awards for greatness in memorable performance and teeming talents of screenwriters who got every nuance, scene and words . . . just write.*AT THE BIJOU* shares&...
ABSOLUTELY*KATE?A FEMME FATALE!AT LILY CHILDSFAB FEB. FEARDOMOnce upon a Myth, Truth became a fragile Reality. I have lived to tell this tale, but barely, just barely, and delectably, with . . . CONT...
"Hey noir lovely lady,Thought your audiences may dig this . . ."~ Daz"Hey nifty Brit guy,Howzabout a Boardroom Massacreinstead of a Valentines Day one?"~ Absolutely*Kate . . . ...
THE CONFIDENCE GAME ~ Recollections from Paul Pilarciks kid, Kate"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." Mr Lombardi looked me solid in the eye when ...
C O V E R U PBy ~ Steven MiscandlonAUTHOR ~ PHOTOGRAPHER ~ DESIGNER So here’s the deal. It’s the fourth month of Noir here in BIJOU-town, and our este...
E N C O R EBy ~ Christina VincentJimmy had half of his face covered with his hand, and whenhe turned around I knew he was trying not to laugh at me. Seeing him do thatwas my trouble, honey, not anyth...
Lascivious Ladies and Genteel Gents,weve just shown youwhat NOIR-HAIKU looks like ... at CRIME AT THE FIVE AND DIMENow parley up a gander at whatnoirtorious crime-guy writer round WebTowne,...
A star shines brightly / Lighting the darkness of noir / As Kevin scribbles:CRIME AT THE FIVE AND DIMEA story told in Haiku-NoirBy ~ Kevin J MackeyA dark Friday nightLenny, looking for troubleDidnt m...
O N E F O R T H E B O O K S By ~ Salvatore Buttaci Trying to keep both my eyes private, I let the nightmare I’m riding whinny in the gray fields of Dream Town. Nostril...
C A L L I N G C A R D By ~ Helen A. Howell Id come down from New York to Chicago some weeks back. I had a score to settle with a certain thug. Not that hed know me from a rotten...
H A R D L A N D I N GBy ~ Steven Miscandlon I’ve always had a thing about stairs. Part fascination, part fear. I have recurring dreams about broken stairways, about running up stairs, abo...
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”~ Literary Hero of Absolutely*Kate, F. Scott Fitzgeraldbillowing souls . . . as souls should be billowe...
Hey there ~NOIR is Back ... AT THE BIJOU!We know you had a shiny Christmas( Santas on the BIJOU payroll. We cover all angles. )Kick back the last week of this helluva year with Ians fly-by ~UNCLE MIL...
*SOUL STAR* ~ My "Happy Christmas" to You"If, as Herod we fill our lives with things, if we consider ourselves so important that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, w...
"COP A SEAT. ILL BE RIGHT WITH YA." ~ superb shadows ala emdot JiNGLE NELLEJiNGLE NELLE ~ by Absolutely*KateYou didnt just get an off-white vellum invitation with the fa...
We share NOIR NOELAT THE BIJOUwith this stunning discoveryin Santas burgeoning book sack ~( Then stay tuned,JINGLENELLEand IAN AYRIS ring back to back ! ) Once upona fairytale time,pa...
Hi Kate, you absolutely, hot patootie! I have officially given up trying to do some kind of officially “noir” story, since I know virtually nothing about detectives and/or crime scenes. I tried writi...
Kate, theres a story from DIRTY OLD TOWN called Sea Minor (hence the blog). Its the Noir story Id like to run with. Its different from all the others Ive ever written, and theres lots of sadness in i...
Shes back! "Lady J"!AT THE BIJOUs well-loved regular, in the 3rd row,Goddess Mother to Brilliant Authors . . .Tis a back-to-back JEANETTE double-feature ~A Sidewalk Café (The Vi...
Pour your bourbon,the better to slug it back,Its a back-to-back MATT HILTON double-feature ~MISCONCEPTIONSBy ~ MATT HILTON I sat in the room, doing the old Sam Spade bit waiting for the femme fa...
{ Now that weve got your attention }AT THE BIJOU decks DECEMBER with NOIR&n bsp;NOELbeginning in the good morrow.NOIR with GIFTSfrom Nigel Bird Matt Hilton Ian Ayris Paul Brazill S...
You are no longer following . Undo?