Email Author Brantley Hargrove

2008 Stories by Brantley Hargrove

• Blood Diamonds

  published August 28, 2008

  It's a creepy feeling, knowing these masked men have cased you for weeks, studying your every move. Leon Rozio had crossed paths with their... More >>

• Swimming Upstream

  published July 3, 2008

  At 7:15 on a morning in mid-June, Dara Torres strode out to the 25-meter pool at the Coral Springs Aquatic Center, turning heads among the teen... More >>

• Smoked Tuna in the Can

  published June 19, 2008

  Robert Platshorn was a hostage, all right, but you wouldn't have known it from the lush Caribbean scenery outside his hotel window. You... More >>

• Jack Don't Know Jack

  published June 19, 2008

  Jack Thompson looks nothing like 9/11 orchestrator Mohamed Atta. He wears a slick business suit and lives in a million-dollar home in Coral... More >>

• Red Erring

  published June 5, 2008

  Driving his Buick Regal around Aventura, Nicholas Spanakos might seem like just another 70-something snowbird. But look closely. The nose gives... More >>

• James McMurtry

  published June 5, 2008

  He's got a few more gray hairs in his goatee now, but James McMurtry is still the dry-as-a-West-Texas-creekbed voice of the proletariat on his... More >>

• The Prom's the Thing

  published May 15, 2008

  It begins sedately enough. Ballgoers slowly filter into the assembly hall of St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic Church in Davie. They walk or strut... More >>