2015 Derringer Submissions Update

From Awards Coordinator Anthony Rudzki, the following stories have been received for Derringer consideration as of the January 31 submission deadline.

Stories are listed from shortest to longest. If your submission is not listed, email TONY dot RUDZKI at GMAIL dot COM.

FLASH (Up to 1,000 words):

Faces
Exit Plan
They Die in Eight Minutes
Because
Final Thoughts
Torch Song for Two Voices
Romantivores
Tomato Soup
Sweet Smells
There Is No We
In Your Easter Bonnet
Two for Tea
HOW LIL JIMMIE BEAT THE BIG C
Foodies
My Blues-Eyed Girl
Agoraphobic Alibi
Johns Spot
Knockout
Six bullets
Chain of Custody
Living the Dream
Because
Shanks Holds The Line
Mansion on the Hill
Front Deck


SHORT (1,001–4,000 words):

A Jobs A Job
A Thousand Kinds of Fur
Didja Think of That?
Jasmine
Hook Line and Sinker
Home for the Holidays
Premonition
Automat
Ted Williams Dreams
Death or Taxes
Tourist Town
Stroke of Genius
Snatched Potatoes
Legacy
Payback
The Fifth Digit
Just Desserts for Johnny
Plan D
Busted!
Who Dat? Dat the Indian Chief!
Wishing For Ignorance
Murder and Money
The Man Who Sold Nothing
The End of the World
The Blessing Witch
Its a Wonderful Rat Race
Moving On
A Bad Day For Bargain Hunters
No Honour Among Thieves
Wish I May Wish I Might
Gods Country
Tote the Note
The Lady in the Lake
Pickled
The Accessory
Thanksgiving on the Throgs Neck Bridge
Murder in a Family
The Kaluki Kings of Queens
Elk Island
Antonia
There Goes the Neighbourhood
Dust to Dust
Live Free or Die
The Least of These
An Inexpensive Piece
Jumping the Bags
Everything in Its Place
Wehrkraftzersetzung
Sawbill Checkpoint
So Long Farewell
The Odds Are Against Us
Bad Memory
Union Man
Killing Sam Clemens
Thanksgiving in Moderation
Baptized at the Casino
The Black Cat
Here Kitty Kitty
SMUDGE
DESPERATION
A Friend in Brown
Missing Person
The Dead of Winter
Pea Soup
Male Leary Comes Home
Forever Mine
Remember Me?
Contents Known
Special Delivery
Christmas in Paradise
Worry a Line
Witch Hunt
Monster Party
The Game
Christmas Concerto
You Always Hurt the One You Love
Francetta Repays Her Debt to Society
A Cold Place to Die
Eyes on My Cards
Compromised Circumstances
Friends
Reckoning
Murder (Redux) in Paradise
The Fourth Girl
Heart Surgery
The Bad Son
Death Will Fire Your Therapist
Their Little Secret
Um Peixe Grande
Do I Know You?


LONG (4,001–8,000 words):

Gibet de Montfaucon
A Hopeless Case
The Poet Moon
More Good Times
Annual Marriage Test
Burned
Separation Anxiety
The Ultimate Mystery
Runaway
Hammered
Easter Aches
On Pacific Beach
The Missing Money
Lamplighter by the Sea
The Great Houdini Murder Case
200 Feet
The Shadow Knows
Last Rites
When Stars Collide
An Open-and-Shut Case
Aix to Grind
Devil Chased The Wolf Away
We Take Care of Our Own
The Angels Wait
Who Murdered Maura Thompson
Dead Dames Dont Wear Diamonds
The Curious Case of the Ha Penny Detective
The Jewel Box
Mrs. Featherpatch Cooks Up a Murder
Its a Trap!
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Howling at the Moon
Kity Cop
Disco Donna
Twice Widowed
A Visit with the One-Eyed Man
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Hunters
Precision
Honeymoon Sweet
The Roseville Way
Impressions
The Monitor
A Haven of Learning...and Death
HARM AND HAMMER
My Sweet Angel of Death
Family to the Bone
Habitat for Inhumanity
Red Beans and Ricin
Purse Strings
Blank Slate
The Real Santa Claus
Jaguar
Gorilla of the Gasbags
Wildcraft
Not Sure Which Way Im Headin
AFTER DADDY DIED
Calculated Risk
The Photograph
Playing for Keeps
IFHC
Yuletide
The Hoard


NOVELETTE (8,001–20,000 words):

The Stonewall Rat
The Bank Robber
MY MOM THE MOVIES AND ME
Bell Book and Candlepin
Neighbor
Hitlers Dogs
Infernal
For Dot
BUSTING RED HEADS
The Assumption Of Seamus Tyrrell
SECOND SIGHT UNSEEN
The Monster in Our Midst
Murder Town
The Snow Angel
Gone Fishing
True Enough: Bolts Last Case
Juba Good
The Artful Goddaughter