We are excited to announce At the Edge of Darkness, the sixth edition of our original Shotgun Honey Presents anthology series. At the Edge of Darkness will release October 1st, 2024 right in time for the Halloween Season, featuring stories on that dark, half-lit space where crime and horror simultaneously reside. That’s right, we’re dipping […]
The alcohol swab, cool on his arm, felt like the touch of a lamb. The prick of the needle taught him nothing he didn’t already know. The state of Kentucky saw fit to declare that this was the end for John Oscar Roiter. Like all dispensers of the law, they were given power over a […]
Beau Johnson is no stranger to Shotgun Honey with over a dozen short story contributions since 2012. Those same stories have lead to a series of successful collections including or featuring everyone’s favorite axe-wielding anti-hero Bishop Rider. The axe has been passed in his newest book, The Abrum Files. Let’s find out how Beau Johnson […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “New Dawn” was first published May 4, 2023. This Flash Fiction Rewind is in celebration of Beau Johnson’s new bestselling release The Abrum Files: A Bishop Rider Book. Follow along this week to read bits of Bishop Rider from the Shotgun Honey archives. I tell him I was a child when my father […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Smaller Fries” was first published November 11, 2019. This Flash Fiction Rewind is in celebration of Beau Johnson’s new bestselling release The Abrum Files: A Bishop Rider Book. Follow along this week to read bits of Bishop Rider from the Shotgun Honey archives. As I believed it would, Culver erupts in response to […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Patience and Rage” was first published January 28, 2019. This Flash Fiction Rewind is in celebration of Beau Johnson’s new bestselling release The Abrum Files: A Bishop Rider Book. Follow along this week to read bits of Bishop Rider from the Shotgun Honey archives. Nikki’s Roadhouse. Off a dusty stretch of blacktop between […]
I was relaxing in my backyard playhouse, tossing back a Juicy-Juice (box, no ice) and chomping a Twizzler, when she made her entrance. She was blond, with firm legs and a hard stare. She wasn’t alone. “Hello, Doll, who’s your friend?” “My name is Suzie, don’t call me Doll. This is Barbie.” “I was talking […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Humble Beginnings” was first published May 17, 2021. This Flash Fiction Rewind is in celebration of Beau Johnson’s new bestselling release The Abrum Files: A Bishop Rider Book. Follow along this week to read bits of Bishop Rider from the Shotgun Honey archives. “You right-handed or left-handed?” He looks to me, up from […]
Betsy Booth (aka Miss Ocracoke 2012) stood equal distance between her lover, Dale Chumley (aka Detective Chumley of the Ralston County Sheriff’s Department), and her husband, Big Hank Booth (aka The Mall Baron), in the empty food court of the Hawktail Galleria. It was two hours after closing, and most of the lights were out, […]
With her wooden cane, Susie scatters away the stones in front of her and gingerly takes a step. Inhaling a shaky breath, she looks around. Concrete rubble. Broken steel rods. Ruins. She closes her eyes. She can still remember those majestic columns, guiding shoppers through that bustling California department store six decades ago. Hard to […]
I called him The Referee because he never wore a stitch of color. Black jacket. Black slacks. White undershirt. Once, he showed up in a black and white-striped sweater and that’s when the name really stuck. He sat in the corner of the bar and drank rum with orange slices, watching small town traffic through […]
We are please to announce the latest novel by Mark Powell, Hurricane Season, a tragic love story of a broken MMA star, a disgraced doctor, and a struggle with addiction and faith. What to Expect inside… Shy Walsh might be the greatest female fighter of her time, but a loss in a Vegas title fight, […]
