Short Story Month: Warren Bull, Paul D. Marks

In 2013, StoryADay.org proclaimed May International Short Story Month.

The SMFS spin on festivities is to highlight one or more members' online stories per day. Today, "Company Policy" by Warren Bull, archived at Yellow Mama, and "Nature of the Beast" by Paul D. Marks, archived at BEAT to a PULP.

Thanks to all our members who contributed links. We hope to have made new fans of crime & mystery short stories.

Here's the full month's collection of fifty stories:

• John M. Floyd, "Saving Grace"
• Jeff Esterholm, "Closing Time at Mom's"
• Jacqueline Seewald, "The Heir Hunt"
• Michael Bracken, "Let Dead Dogs Lie"
• Sarah M. Chen, "The High Road"
• Mary Reed, "Of Equivalent Experience"
• Susan Oleksiw, "A Short Walk to Stardom"
• Paul Lees-Haley, "Flash Bang"
• Jan Christensen, "Who's Who"
• Gail Farrelly, "Revenge of the Cellphone"
• Jennifer Soosar, "The Psychic's Parlor"
• Erik Arneson, "Not My Gun"
• Benjamin L. Clark, "A Drover's Birthday"
• Anita Page, "Revelations of the Night"
• Kaye George, "This Isn't the Way"
• B.J. Bourg, "Severed Relationship"
• Jack Bates, "Worry a Line"
• J.R. Lindermuth, "A Man in a Hurry"
• Kathy Waller, "And Justice for All"
• Kevin R. Tipple, "The Tell"
• O'Neil De Noux, "Friscoville"
• Cynthia St-Pierre, "Hide and Seek for Grown-ups"
• Nina Mansfield, "Summer Reading"
• Karen L. Abrahamson, "Neutrality"
• Leslie Wheeler, "Gone, But Not Forgotten"
• B.V. Lawson, "Gun Love"
• Lida Bushloper, "Born on the 4th of July"
• Josh Pachter, "Jemaa el Fna"
• Travis Richardson, "A Bro Code Violation"
• Edith Maxwell, "A Questionable Death"
• Nancy Brewka-Clark, "Butt"
• Alan Orloff, "Seeing the Light"
• Barb Goffman, "A Year Without Santa Claus"
• Su Kopil, "The Surprise"
• Art Taylor, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"
• James S. Dorr, "The Winning"
• Mark Best, "The Safest Place on Earth"
• Terrie Farley Moran, "A Killing at the Beausoleil"
• Barry Ergang, "All in the Holster"
• Stephen Buehler, "John's Spot"
• Nikki Dolson, "George Ann"
• Michael Bracken, "To Live and Die in Texas"
• Kevin R. Tipple, "Burning Questions"
• Paul Lees-Haley, "The Good Wife"
• Bobbi A. Chukran, "The Interview"
• Debra H. Goldstein, "Violet Eyes"
• B.V. Lawson, "Wrong Side of the Bed"
• Craig Faustus Buck, "Heavy Debt"
• Warren Bull, "Company Policy"
• Paul D. Marks, "Nature of the Beast"