"It Was Perfect, You Rotten Little Snake, Perfect"

"Footprints."
By C. K. M. Scanlon (a Standard Publications house pseudonym).
First appearance: Popular Detective, September 1935.
Short short short story (1 page).
Online at Pulpgen HERE.

Like Othello, a man succumbs to "a jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure"—mistakenly thinking that two bullets might be the solution:

. . . “Bart Tyson,” the sheriff announced, “has been found dead—shot in the back by some yellow-livered skunk!”  . . .

"Blood for Breakfast."
By C. K. M. Scanlon (a Standard Publications house pseudonym).
First appearance: Popular Detective, December 1935.
Short short short story (2 pages).
Online at Pulpgen HERE.

Sometimes when you win, you lose:

. . . “You were a fool to flash a roll as big as you did in a strange town. I seen it when you bought them cigars.”  . . .

Resources:
- A list of stories by many different pulp authors using the "C. K. M. Scanlon" alias begins HERE; Pulpgen has other tales as by the Scanlon pseudonym that we might get around to, but in the meantime you're free to seek them out yourself HERE.

Category: Biters get bit