Dodging Bullets – July 27, 2018 – Passing of the Gauntlet
When Shotgun Honey first started in 2011 it was done so to capture something of the past, of zines that had come and gone. Some that flickered brightly and then vanished. I didn’t have any concept of how long the site would last or if it would exist past a few months. It wasn’t entirely […]
It’s time for Honey to Change
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 […]
The Night Mandy’s Car Broke Down on 539 by Jen Conley
She knew it was coming—her boss at the bar was always saying that an American-made car can’t make it to 200,000 miles. Something in the motor just gave out when she’d slowed around the bend. Mandy had steered the car to the side of the road, let it come to rest by the woods, the […]
Hatpin by Jen Conley
It’d been five weeks since Irene O’Connell’s father collected her from the Dominican Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary Orphanage on 63rd street. He turned up on a June day in ’39, driving a borrowed Model T Ford, not mentioning the borrowed part until they were well into the Bronx. Irene was sixteen, old […]
Ghouls by Jen Conley
She was a pretty girl, fourteen, romantic in her thoughts, still a kid. The house she lived in backed up to a line of scrub pines and skinny oaks before opening into an endless beige desert of abandoned gravel pits. Fire trails and narrow paths ran along the perimeter of the forgotten excavation, with dirt […]
