"The Wages of Sin"

Stoked that my noir story, "The Wages of Sin," is up at Mystery Tribune's Daily Fiction. It was originally inspired by the Ramones' song "I Believe in Miracles" -- "Tattooed her name on my arm / I always said my girl's a good luck charm" -- and rolled around in my head for a couple of years before I could get it to work. Thinking of a priest with a gambling problem and a tattoo of the Virgin Mary. My working title was "A Hail Mary Pass."