mystery and crime short fiction

  • The Bulldog Ant is Not a Team Player by Dan Stout

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Whoever said that there’s honor among thieves must have worked alone. Scientists both cruel and curious have demonstrated that a Bulldog Ant cut in two will continue to lash out at anything nearby, including itself, the heads and bodies biting and stinging their missing halves until either death…

  • The Basement by MJ Gardner

    Listen to this story on the podcast. A girl needs to do what she can to stay safe. So if I tell it to you all over again can I get out of this dress? Why do I have to tell it to you? They wrote it all down. But I suppose you’re a shrink…

  • The Chunk by Michael McGlade

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Even when you’re just passing through, sometimes you can’t help but notice when something’s wrong. The weekend after Halloween is when they have the annual Punkin Chunkin championship in Delaware, which is where a bunch of backyard engineers compete to turn pumpkins into projectiles. Folks wear hollowed-out pumpkins…

  • Plan B Omnibus paperback now available from Amazon

    All 52 stories from the Plan B anthologies collected in this handsome 540 page anthology. Just $24.99 from Amazon and coming soon to your favourite online bookseller. Featuring stories by: Patti Abbott Ed Ahern Nick Andreychuk Tom Barlow Aislinn Batstone Doug Black Craig Faustus Buck Frank Byrns Gary Cahill Sally Carpenter Sarah M. Chen Ian Creasey Peter…

  • Death by Fiction by J. M. Vogel

    Listen to this story on the podcast. There’s a blurred line between truth and fiction that you don’t want to cross. Alexander sat at his desk, his fingers pounding away on the keyboard. After days of trying to figure out this one particular passage of his novel, he finally knew how he wanted to end…

  • Why I Love Short Fiction

    I’ve always been a voracious reader. When I was a kid, my parents had to ask the local library for a special dispensation for me on the number of books I could check out at a time. We often left with two stuffed bags just for me. To augment library offerings, we also had subscriptions…

  • 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.

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