Author: Editor

  • Congratulations to Plan B Author Stephen D. Rogers on his Derringer Award Win

    We are thrilled to congratulate Stephen D. Rogers on winning the 2014 Derringer Award for his story “Luck is What You Make” (Crime Factory, May 2013). You can read Stephen’s story “Inured” in the Plan B Volume II anthology, or online here.… Read the rest

  • Um Piexe Grande by Patti Abbott

    Listen to this story on the podcast. “Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.” — William Shakespeare Though his eyes were squeezed tight, Gas could hear Loretta standing in their bedroom doorway, his lunch bag crinkling in her hand. He also knew from a variety of signs and smells…

  • Doing God’s Work by Wayne Scheer

    Listen to this story on the podcast. “God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform;” — William Cowper Eli and Vernon Browbridge rolled The Fat Man’s bloated body from the trunk of their 1987 Pontiac Grand Prix into the hole in the ground they had just dug. Eli spoke first. “I wonder if…

  • Murderous Lies by Peter DiChellis

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Sometimes, there’s no plan at all. Only improvisation. I remember everything about that night: the truth, the terror, the luck, and the lies. Someday I want to forget. As always, Larry’s Tavern was dark and dank as a moldy cellar. A woman sitting at one end of the…

  • Announcing the Plan B Podcast

    I am very happy to announce that with the help of Plan B author Gary Cahill and producer Tom Richter, we will be offering select Plan B stories in audio. Our first story is Sirens by Gary Cahill. Have a listen here. Subscribe to the podcast feed: iTunes via iTunes RSS in another podcatcher or…