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Forty-five floors up and the dirt still followed.
Ready and Able — noir crime paranoia mystery, posting now. Chapter One is live.
A Mile High Murder Ready and Able: Framed in New December The ceilings had to be twelve feet high.Open floor plan. Floor-to-ceiling windows.
rain on high-rise glass. a body on imported marble. a lighter that has no business being there.
this is Ready and Able. new noir fiction posting chapter by chapter. start from the beginning.
A Mile High Murder Ready and Able: Framed in New December The ceilings had to be twelve feet high.Open floor plan. Floor-to-ceiling windows.
A Mile High Murder
Ready and Able: Framed in New December
In a rain‑lit penthouse above Havenridge, Detective Ricky Ready finds a dead developer, a clean room, and a lighter engraved “Forever lit.” The city’s corruption climbs as high as its towers, and Ricky’s first mistake is thinking he’s alone.
Free to read ->
A Mile High Murder Ready and Able: Framed in New December The ceilings had to be twelve feet high.Open floor plan. Floor-to-ceiling windows.
Any illustrator willing to collaborate on a one shot comic, we can run a Kickstarter campaign and you keep the spoils?
Slice-of-life or crime fiction preferably.
Most writers kill their tension before the story even starts.
They explain too much. Too soon.
Tension doesn’t come from action—it comes from withholding.
If the reader knows everything, there’s nothing left to chase.
The Insight
Tension lives in the gap between:
what the character knows
and what the reader knows
Close that gap too early, and your story goes flat.
In Ready & Able, the reader walks into the room blind.
You don’t know who’s in control.
You don’t know the full situation.
You only feel that something’s off.
That’s intentional.
Instead of explaining the moment, the story lets you sit in it.
This is the same structure I’m using to build tension across New December.
Check out Chapter One here:
Framed in New December Written by Obdee Chapter One: Setting the FrameThe ceilings had to be twelve feet high. Open floor plan. Room 4505 co
Don’t explain the tension.
Let it breathe.
If this sharpened your approach, stay close.
Next week, we’re breaking down how control shifts inside a scene—and how to write it without saying a word too soon.
Until then, keep building.
Write sharp.
— Quiet Hour
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Here is the first installment of our short story series Ready & Able.
Chapter One — Setting the Frame
Written by: Obbie Denzel
Genre: Neo-Noir • Crime Thriller • Mystery
Mood: Rain-soaked. Tense. Suspicious. Everyone’s hiding something.
Chapter Synopsis:
When a powerful developer is executed in a luxury high-rise, the scene looks clean — too clean. Detective Ricky Ready is first on-site, but one phone number in the victim’s call log turns the case personal fast. Meanwhile, journalist Eren Able catches a leak that shouldn’t exist: a photo placing Ricky at the crime scene before the official timeline. In a city where police reports get polished and truth gets buried, two people from opposite sides of the law are about to be pulled into the same frame — and someone is already setting them up to take the fall.
Short Passage:
The front door showed no sign of forced entry. Two wine glasses sat barely touched. Across the room, our victim was failing the room-temperature challenge on the dining floor, two rounds buried in the back of his skull.
I checked his phone. Wanted to know who got the last word before Jeffery Adams took his one-way trip.
Missed calls from his wife. An outgoing call to Bishop.
Then an incoming call from an unsaved number.
My stomach dropped.
I pulled out my phone and compared the number.
Helene Harlotte.
The love of my life.
…What the hell are you doing in my victim’s call log?
The Plan
I’m building a slate of serialized short stories — each one designed with a future comic adaptation in mind.
My hopes are to assemble a creative team so these stories can become comic adaptations.
All support is welcome.
If you are interested and want to keep up with the process all links are in the bio.
When the city finally shuts up — when the traffic fades, when the last train sighs into the dark, when the world stops asking for anything — that’s when the stories start talking.
This publication is built for those hours.
The Quiet Hour Writer is my late‑night studio, the place where I build worlds across genres: crime, slice‑of‑life, superheroes, and the strange corners where I can discuss them together. Some stories come out clean. Most don’t. But they all start here — in the quiet, in the pressure, in the moments when the page feels like the only thing still awake.
If you’re here, you’re stepping into the workshop with me. So I thank you.
What You’ll Find Here
This isn’t a single‑genre newsletter. It’s a multi‑lane highway of storytelling:
- Serialized short fiction
- Worldbuilding notes
- Process breakdowns
- Behind‑the‑scenes craft
- Updates on comic adaptations
- The roadmap toward building a creative team
Some posts will read like scenes.
Some will read like case files.
Some will read like the scribbled notes of a writer trying to catch a thought before it slips away.
All of it is part of the work.
The Bigger Vision
I’m not just writing stories — I’m building toward something larger.
Every serialized short story here is designed with a future comic adaptation in mind. That means character arcs built for panels, pacing built for issues, and worlds built for color, motion, and grit.
Through Quiet Hour Comics, I’m laying the groundwork to assemble a creative team — illustrators, colorists, letterers — who can help bring these stories to life. Crowdfunding will be part of that journey, and you’ll see every step of the process unfold here.
If you’ve ever wanted to watch a comic universe get built from the ground up, this is the front row seat.
Why I’m Doing This
Because stories don’t leave you alone.
Because some ideas won’t wait for morning.
Because the quiet hours are where the real work happens — the messy drafts, the breakthroughs, the scenes that hit like a punch to the ribs.
This publication is where I document that process.
Where I share the worlds I’m building.
Where I show the craft behind the chaos.
What You Can Expect Next
In the coming weeks, you’ll see:
- The first serialized stories
- Notes from The Night Desk
- Deep dives into The December Files universe
- Updates on the Quiet Hour Comics initiative
- Character spotlights
- Worldbuilding fragments
- And the first steps toward assembling the creative team
This is the beginning of something long‑form, long‑term, and built with intention.
If you’re here, welcome.
Pull up a chair.
The lamp’s on.
The city’s quiet.
And the stories are just getting started.
- Obdee
When the city finally shuts up — when the traffic fades, when the last train sighs into the dark, when the world stops asking for anything — that’s when the stories start talking.
5 posts!
Welcome to The Quiet Hour Writer — a corner of the night where stories take shape. I write crime, noir, slice‑of‑life, and multi‑genre fiction, and I’m building a universe one short story at a time.
Title: Ready & Able: Framed in New December
Chapter One — Setting the Frame
Written by: Obbie Denzel
Genre: Neo-Noir • Crime Thriller • Mystery
Mood: Rain-soaked. Tense. Suspicious. Everyone’s hiding something.
Chapter Synopsis:
When a powerful developer is executed in a luxury high-rise, the scene looks clean — too clean. Detective Ricky Ready is first on-site, but one phone number in the victim’s call log turns the case personal fast. Meanwhile, journalist Eren Able catches a leak that shouldn’t exist: a photo placing Ricky at the crime scene before the official timeline. In a city where police reports get polished and truth gets buried, two people from opposite sides of the law are about to be pulled into the same frame — and someone is already setting them up to take the fall.
Short Passage:
The front door showed no sign of forced entry. Two wine glasses sat barely touched. Across the room, our victim was failing the room-temperature challenge on the dining floor, two rounds buried in the back of his skull.
I checked his phone. Wanted to know who got the last word before Jeffery Adams took his one-way trip.
Missed calls from his wife. An outgoing call to Bishop.
Then an incoming call from an unsaved number.
My stomach dropped.
I pulled out my phone and compared the number.
Helene Harlotte.
The love of my life.
…What the hell are you doing in my victim’s call log?
*DM for access to full chapter.*
Creative work is often hindered by the desire to wait for perfect inspiration, perfect words, or a flawless draft. By accepting circumstance whether it's limitations of time, resources, or mood and choosing to act, writers can ensure consistent progress.
Sometimes, I wonder what’s left behind when innocence is traded for survival. Close your eyes: are there parts of you that feel older than your years, cracked by secrets you’ve had to keep?
They say rain cleanses the soul. In New December, it buries the truth deeper.”
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