mystery and crime short fiction

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  • Plan B Story “The Little Outlaw” by Mike Miner a Derringer Finalist!

    We are delighted to report that “The Little Outlaw” by Mike Miner has been selected as a finalist in the 2014 Derringer Awards for short mystery fiction. Congratulations, Mike! You are in great company, and we wish all the finalists great success.… Read the rest

  • House Cleaning by Ian Creasey

    It’s magical when kids help out around the house. There was a dead mouse in Mum’s bedroom. Simon gently pushed the door open and crept in. He smelled his mother’s perfume, almost overwhelmed by the odour of sweat and cigarettes and sour alcohol. A ray of morning sunlight shone through the curtains like a spotlight,…

  • Sirens by Gary Cahill

    Listen to this story on the podcast. True love is hard to find. The stroll from sidewalk to shoreline was longer than ever, formidable on a given day, crossing the rare beach in Jersey getting wider every year, erosion from the north dumping more white powder to the south and pushing water’s edge further into the…

  • The Ring by Aislinn Batstone

    Things have a funny way of working out – for some people, anyway. Elliot didn’t know what had made him stop in at the pawnbroker’s on his way home from work that Tuesday evening. Perhaps simply the fact that it was so close to his apartment, just across the street behind his building. He certainly…

  • Mockingbird Rail Yard Blues by Jim Downer

    “For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, must suffer.” — Horace I dug the book I was reading out from under a stack of college paperwork that sat on my desk. After a week of celebrating my high school graduation I just didn’t have the drive to dig in to all of that…