SMFS Members Published in the BOULD* Awards 2019 Short Story Anthology (*Bizarre, Outrageous, Unfettered, Limitless, Daring)

Numerous SMFS list members are published in the Bould* Awards 2019 Short Story Anthology: (*Bizarre, Outrageous, Unfettered, Limitless, Daring). Edited and published by SMFS list member Jake Devlin, the book is available in print and digital formats at Amazon and other vendors. The SMFS list members in the book are:

Tom Barlow with “Chemo Queen” and, writing as Jimmy Summers, “The Sadist.”

John  Clark with “In A Town Mostly Forgotten” and “Pinning Ceremony” and “Take Nothing For Granite.”

Herschel Cozine with “The Purloined Pickled Peppers.”

Maddi Davidson with “Cold Snap” and “Bitch and Chips.”

Lesley A. Diehl with “Drip-Dry and Wrinkle-Free.”

Jake Devlin with “An Apocalyptic Micro Short Story” and “Confession of a Serial Killer” as well as “Teagan’s Special Sand Castle.”

James Dorr with “In The Octopus’s Garden” and “Mr. Happy Head.”

Karen Duxbury with “Euthanasia.”

Will A. Emerson with “Oh, Henry” and “Honor Amongst The Rigid.”

Eve Fisher with “Preincarnation” and “Bait.”

Kaye George with “Meeting on the Funicular.”

Robert Petyo with “The Cat” and “The Suicide Bureau.”

KM Rockwood with “The Society” and “To Die a Free Man: The Story of Joseph Bowers.”

Cheri Vause with “Zero-Sum.”

Elizabeth Zelvin with “A Shifting Plan” and “The Silkie.”

Additionally, three of the top four prize winners are SMFS list members. The full list of prize winners as posted by Jake Devlin to our SMFS list are:

1st Place ($50):   The Mystery of the Missing Albino - Steve Shrott

2nd Place ($30):  The Society—KM Rockwood

3rd Place ($20):   Bitch and Chips - Maddi Davidson

4th Place ($10):   Euthanasia – Karen Duxbury

Synopsis With TOC To Follow:

Are you an adventurous, daring reader? Like to explore new frontiers? If so, this one's for you.

In this second annual edition, you'll find nearly 40 of the weirdest, most outrageous, wackiest, scariest, puzzlingest (is that really a word?) short stories submitted for this anthology in 2019. That's nearly twice the number of stories in the 2018 edition, our first.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be shocked, scared, and maybe even perflutzed by some of the stories you'll find inside, in many different genres and styles. But with nearly every story, we know you'll be surprised.

These stories have all been anonymously selected by a panel of independent judges.

We expect the 2020 edition to be BOULDer (no relation to the city in Colorado), and that'll raise the bar even higher for the 2021 edition. We might wind up changing “Limitless” to “Loopy” if writers can really let their inhibitions go and let their haywire creativity loose.

But now it's time for you to quit reading these promo bits, brace yourself and dig in. Have fun!

TABLE of CONTENTS

Bitch and Chips - Maddi Davidson – 1060 words

A Walk In The Park - Francis Hicks - 490

Honor Amongst the Rigid – Wil A. Emerson - 2980

Clarity - Francis Hicks - 720

In the Octopus's Garden – James Dorr - 2400

Take Nothing For Granite - John Clark - 1170

When I Think About - Gary R. Hoffman - 450

Teacher’s Pets - Kat Fast - 1990

Teagan's Special Sand Castle - Jake Devlin – 1300

Note Found Near Scattered Human Skeletal Remains - Jack Ewing - 1840

Oh Henry – Wil A. Emerson – 2990

Bait – Eve Fisher – 2700

Zero-Sum - Cheri Vause - 1500

Chemo Queen – Tom Barlow - 2970

The Sadist - Jimmy Summers – 750

In A Town Mostly Forgotten – John Clark – 2060

The Purloined Pickled Peppers - Herschel Cozine - 2400

The Price You Pay - William A. Rush IV – 1850

Henry The Butler - Francis Hicks - 500

The Mystery of the Missing Albino - Steve Shrott - 2800

A Shifting Plan - Elizabeth Zelvin – 2500

Input From A Serial Killer - John Furutani – 2570

Confession of a Serial Killer – Jake Devlin - 500

The Cat - Robert Petyo – 2100

Deer Juj - David Hagerty – 850

The Society - KM Rockwood – 2200

Something Wacky This Way Comes - Karen Phillips – 2000

Pinning Ceremony – John Clark – 2670

Drip-Dry and Wrinkle-Free – Lesley A. Diehl – 2440

Mr. Happy Head – James Dorr – 2700

Preincarnation – Eve Fisher – 1000

To Die a Free Man: The Story of Joseph Bowers – KM Rockwood – 2790

The Suicide Bureau – Robert Petyo – 1700

The Silkie – Elizabeth Zelvin – 2900

Meeting on the Funicular – Kaye George – 735

Cold Snap – Maddi Davidson – 640

Euthanasia – Karen Duxbury – 260

An Apocalyptic Micro Short Story – Jake Devlin – 20