Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 124, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 757 & 758, September/October 2004

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Ruth Francisco worked in the film industry for fifteen years before the publication of her first novel, Confessions of a Deathmaiden, in 2003. An expanded version of “Dream of Murder” forms the first chapter of her new novel, Good Morning, Darkness, which is due from Mysterious Press this September. The following is the author’s first published short fiction — a superb debut that EQMM is proud to bring its readers!

I found the first arm. The second one washed up on Malibu beach seven miles north of here. The rest of the body must’ve gotten eaten by sharks.

The newspapers gave credit to a jogger who came by later and that’s okay by me. I’m legal and everything. I was born here. But that doesn’t mean I want to talk to cops.

Two or three times a week, I get up at four-thirty and take my beat-up Toyota truck down Washington Boulevard to the beach. I go to fish. They say the fish are too polluted to eat, but it tastes better than what you can buy at the store and it’s free. In the two hours before work, I catch enough bonito or barracuda to feed my family and my neighbors for a few days. When I snag a halibut, I give some to Consuello Rosa, my landlady, and she lets the rent slide awhile.

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