mystery and crime short fiction

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  • The Asshat Fund by Todd Morr

    Listen to this story on the podcast. 1. The wire digging into my wrists and the punches to the gut and face were unnecessary. I would have given them the name based on mean looks and harsh language. Depending on the day, they could have just asked nicely. After digging another upper cut into the…

  • Intimate Knowledge by Suzanne Baginskie

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Gentlemen’s Night Club, where I pole danced, reeked of cigarette smoke and stale booze. Heat from the overhead spotlights illuminated the stage floor and made my skin clammy. I bumped and gyrated to the tune “Let’s Get it On” in front of twenty or so leering men with…

  • Broken Hearts by Laird Long

    Listen to this story on the podcast. The house was in the hot part of Hollywood. The part where the sun doesn’t shine tourist-bright and pleasant, but rather hot and oppressive; the part where you’d never dream in your wildest scar-dust dreams that there was a great big, cool blue ocean only five miles away.…

  • Red Bait by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg

    Listen to this story on the podcast. An amber bulb lit up on the board and Audrey Cain reflexively inserted a plug into the hole below it. “Mr. Gray’s office. May I help you?” she asked as automatically as she had made the connection. She barely heard the name on the other end of the…

  • Honeymoon Sweet nominated for Anthony Award

    Congratulations to Craig Faustus Buck, whose story Honeymoon Sweet (reprinted in Plan B Vol V) has been nominated for a 2015 Anthony Award. Also, his new novel, Go Down Hard was released today. Double congratulations, Craig!… Read the rest