by Frank Sibila
“The alibis guy! I saw you on Clark Dilton! You’re that guy, right?”
“Yes,” Frank said. “I’m that guy. Can I help you?”
“I got a sishu-sishuwa….”
“Situation,” Frank suggested.
“Thassh right. My wife found out I was seeing a prosh—a prosh—”
“Whatever. I get the idea.”
“Thasssh right! And I told it was perfectly innocent, but she threw me out! Can you help me fix it?”
“It is the kind of thing I do,” Frank said. “How long ago did this happen?”
“In 1987. She got married again, had four kids.”
Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in. How can I not take that challenge?
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a business card.
AUTHORS
FRANK SIBILA is educated to degree-level and started Fakealibi.com in 2005. The company has served more than 7,000 clients and operates a global stable of 700 undercover agents willing to take casework at a moment’s notice. With 10,000 registered users and an average of 20,000 visitors a month to Fakealibi.com, business is booming, and keeping a low profile is no easy task for Frank.
ADAM-TROY CASTRO’s hyphen is frequently misplaced, often between Troy and Castro, a screwup that turns his middle name into his last and results in eccentric alphabetic shelving of his books. Gamely enduring this, and pressing on despite all obstacles, he has managed to produce a body of work that includes his Andrea Cort novels Emissaries from the Dead (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), and its sequel The Third Claw of God. His thirteen other books include the Sinister Six trilogy of Spider-Man novels and the nonfiction “My Ox Is Broken!” His short fiction has received five Nebula nominations and two nominations apiece for the Stoker and Hugo Awards. His novella “The Astronaut from Wyoming,” written in collaboration with Jerry Oltion, was awarded the Seiun. His upcoming books include another Andrea Cort novel and something called Z Is for Zombie. Adam lives in Miami with his lovely wife Judi and an assortment of insane cats that includes one, Uma Furman, who remains blissfully unaware that she has been discussed in the international press.
CAREN KENNEDY is a freelance writer and editor living in Dublin, Ireland. She has had a varied career as an artist’s model, P.A., debt collector, interior designer, and photographer before turning to writing.
Copyright © 2009 by Frank Sibila
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