Crime Suspenstories #16

In "Rendezvous!", a man named Joe, bored and reckless, makes a bet with his coworkers about a colleague’s plane crash—just for fun. When suspicion turns to him, he plots a twisted revenge by planting a bomb on the boss’s flight, only to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when the plane goes down.

In "Fission Bait!", a war veteran turned machinist named Eddie finds his life upended when his government contracts end with the close of World War II—only to be revived by a new, secret project involving atomic bomb casings. His fragile peace shatters when a chance encounter in Los Angeles leads to a dangerous affair, forcing him to make a desperate, irreversible choice. But when a prospector’s Geiger-counter picks up an unexpected signal in the desert, Eddie’s darkest secret begins to surface in the most radioactive way possible.

In "Come Clean!", a man condemned to die for a murder he didn’t commit faces his final moments in the electric chair, haunted by the cruel twist of fate that pinned the crime on him—his jacket, identical to the killer’s, was at the cleaners on the night of the murder. With the truth too late to matter, the weight of false evidence and a single overlooked detail hang in the air as the execution begins.