mystery and crime short fiction

  • 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!

  • The Double Iron Cross by William E. Wallace

    Listen to this story on the podcast. I stayed in bed, pretending to be asleep until Nola left for work. I needed to piss and take a dump in the worst way but I knew if I got up while she was still home, she would get into it with me about getting out of…

  • Fill In The Blanks by Stephen D. Rogers

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Tom represented what I always wanted in a man. That he exhibited the qualities of kindness and humor and strength might not have been apparent to me at first, but the more time we spent together, the more he revealed himself to be the man I’d dreamt of…

  • Please Wait by Robert Dawson

    Listen to this story on the podcast. I could tell the dame was trouble as soon as she slithered into my office. A real Sherlock Holmes type might have deduced this by scientific observation of her blood-red stiletto-heeled shoes, in the context of the matching miniskirt, spaghetti-strap top, lipstick and fingernails, and all this at…

  • This Land of the Strange by Math Bird

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Jernegan knew they’d come. He’d left enough clues for them to find him. Besides, Swain wanted him dead, so it was only a matter of time. Yet the moment he stepped off the bus and sniffed the air, such thoughts left, abandoning him to the smell of the…

  • BV Lawson’s “The Least of These” a 2015 Derringer Award Finalist!

    I’m so pleased to share that BV Lawson’s “The Least of These” (Plan B: Volume III) is one of the finalists for this year’s Derringer Awards for excellence in crime and mystery short fiction! Also, congratulations to Plan B authors Jed Power and Eryk Pruitt and the rest of the Derringer Award finalists!

  • Broad Daylight by Eve Fisher

    Listen to this story on the podcast. When we arrived, Jack Olson was lying in a pool of blood on Carl Jacobsen’s study floor. The wall behind him, including the white frames around the broken window, was a mess, sprayed with dark red bits and blobs of Jack. He looked surprised at being dead. Carl…

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