One wishes they had a crystal ball, to foresee the future. See how the road takes us and to see how, seemingly, at a moments notices things change. Change happens constantly. One day Kent Gowran had an idea to start a website dedicated to flash fiction crime stories. The next day he has two willing […]
There was the city and the pulse and Natalie Bloom and Matthew Ballantino taking Natalie out of that pulse. Natalie matched her footsteps to the beat and tilted her head towards the streetlights. Nothing Natalie loved more than sliding into the thump thump of her beloved city’s heart. Nothing Natalie hated more than something that […]
I hope you’ve been saving your pennies, because today is the day. Today Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels launches officially! I say officially because some of you discovered that the trade paperback has been available since the weekend, kicking our sales off to an early start. Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels features 29 tales of […]
We had two coppers, a shotgun and a dog named Rags on our tail. I only knew that because his overly enthusiastic owner kept howling, “Get ’em by the balls, Rags!” as we tore along. Small town, big money, smash and grab, said Chet. Easy peasy jalfreezi. I glanced his way. He ran flat out, […]
Me deciding to air out my swampy junk isn’t really any of my neighborhood’s business, but everybody’s got an opinion these days, so 9-1-1 is called and a police car arrives and I’m hauled off in the raw — which halts video production in my garage studio. Because the amateurs I’ve hired don’t know what […]
Fenton climbed the zigzag, rusted stairs to a gated door that leaned ajar. A red light gleamed in the window—open for business. A knot of caution tightened in his gut. The woman who co-owned the place was a lesbian named Lizzy. Fenton didn’t care for the language of her lip, but her girlfriend, Veronica, wow. […]
In the parking lot, Stanton Ross stepped out of the Mercedes surrounded by 250-pound bookends. Goons. Hired muscle. Twenty-five inch biceps and IQs to match. Bucky leaned back against his car. His 22-day rabbit was cooked. No more checking the rearview mirror every two minutes. No more dimly lit motel rooms and greasy take-out with […]
The body hung from a street lamp in the center of town. The street lamps hadn’t worked in years, but if they had they wouldn’t have lit up much. A dusty stretch of road with a bar, a general store, and a livery. The others were boarded up, abandoned. Jed studied the body. Missing were […]
The handcuffs were slicing into my wrists, threatening to cut me past the point of needing to be restrained. Mariel was striding around her makeshift dungeon, pouting her blood red lips, smiling her predator smile. The smile that says you’re totally fucked. The smile that says you’re mine until you’re not. Under normal circumstances, as […]
Victor swizzled some coffee and stared at the sluggish confetti of snow outside the diner and wondered when the last time was he had played in the white stuff or even saw it fall for that matter. All the while his head seethed with mucus and transient compunctions both past and present, and it helped […]
I don’t know nuthin’ about guns these days, so forgive me if I get some shit wrong here. Or fuck it, don’t forgive me. Like I give a fuck. Just listen. You might learn somethin’. I’m pointing this particular gun at the motherfucker who walked in here and tried to walk out with his pockets […]
It’s hard to believe that 5 months ago I announced that we would be be producing our first print/ebook anthology. It seems so long ago to be such a short period of time, but there it is, only 5 month. In that time, our quartet has read through nearly a 100 stories of all aspects […]
