mystery and crime short fiction

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  • Bad John by Adam Howe

    What’s not to like about a dog-lover? Sadie shivered in the falling snow, hands dug deep in the pockets of her mangy leopard print coat, hungrily eyeing the cars curb-crawling the Strip. Music boomed inside the titty bar behind her, the black tinted window quaking to the bass. She’d danced there herself when she first…

  • Plan B story “The Uninvited Spook” by C. D. Reimer on Toasted Cake

    Plan B story “The Uninvited Spook” by C. D. Reimer is now available in audio on the fantastic podcast Toasted Cake.… Read the rest

  • Plan B Year Three – New Campaign

    Today we launched a crowdfunding campaign for Year Three of Plan B Magazine. We are aiming to raise $3000, to double our pay rate and bring you another year of great Plan B stories. If you contribute, you can pre-order the two anthologies for Year Three, catch up with a pack of all four previous Plan…

  • An Unexpected Invitation by Daniel Marshall Wood

    Listen to this story on the podcast. “You are cordially invited…” “Do you think black tie?” Delia asked her husband late Sunday afternoon. Beyond the diamond-paned library window flagstones disappeared under white powder. “What?” Adam stirred from dedicated concentration on the Times crossword, upsetting a grey tabby from her corduroy perch. “The clue is ‘Barker…

  • Write Your Epitaph by Laird Long

    Listen to this story on the podcast. It’s never too late to catch a dream. The judge was banging down hard on his gavel, but the angry hammering was lost in the babble of furious voices—shouting, swearing, screaming, howling. Someone stole a purse, busted into a store, scored some drugs, turned some tricks, fell down…