BLEAK AND BLANK

The Maltese Guess

A journey into nothingness and pancakes

Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/side-view-photo-of-man-smoking-cigarette-7319347/

In the perpetual twilight of his waking world, the discount-shelf detective shivered under the weight of cold rain splashing on his increasingly ineffective outerwear. To solve the mystery trying to consume his mind his only real task at the moment, even as the shadow of pancakes through the rain-soaked window in…