SMFS Members Published in Shotgun Honey Presents: Thicker Than Water

 

Today is publication day for Shotgun Honey Presents: Thicker Than Water.  This new anthology includes short stories by a number of our members. Published by Shotgun Honey Books, the read is currently available in print at the publisher and in digital format at Amazon. The SMFS list members that reported that they are in the read are:

 

Francelia Belton with “On the Fifth Day."

 

Jay Butkowski with “The Knight’s Tale.”

 

James D. Hannah with "Ashes in Your Mouth."

 

Karen Harrington with "Whatever Happened to Jill Dawn Meade?"

 

Curtis Ippolito with "Shifting the Blame."

 

Meagan Lucas with “We Have a Wolf.”

 

Cate Moyle with ”SheilaOSomething9.”

 

Lori Robbins with "Mirror Image."

 

Jessica Slee with “Woodpeckers.”

 

Rob D. Smith with "There Are Many Wolves."

 

Julie Tollefson with "Some Things Never Change."

 

Publisher Description:

The fifth installment of the Shotgun Honey Presents anthology series. In this special edition, 20 authors present tales featuring female protagonist who navigate the precarious boundaries of the darker spaces of humanity.

With stories from Francelia Belton, Jason Butkowski, James D.F. Hannah, Karen Harrington, Curtis Ippolito, Meagan Lucas, Bobby Mathews, Cate Moyle, Jonathan Newman, Lori Robbins, J. Rohr, Jessica Slee, Rob D. Smith, Mary Thorson, Julie Tollefson, Ilyn Welch, Holly West, Michael Wiley, Maura Yzmore, and editor Ron Earl Phillips.

All proceeds of this anthology will donated to benefit breast cancer research.

This collection is dedicated to Carolyn Jean Phillips, and to those who fought.

SMFS Members Published in Mirrors Reflecting Shadows

SMFS list members have short stories in the anthology, Mirrors Reflecting Shadows, released last week by Anxiety Press, Outcast Press, and Roi Fainéant Press. The charity anthology is available in digital and print formats at Amazon and other vendors.  The SMFS list members with short stories are:

 

Shari Held with "Lizards and Other Varmints.”

 

Bev Vincent with "Freya Goes Viral."

 

Amazon Description:

Anxiety Press, Outcast Press, and Roi Fainéant Press have teamed up to curate an anthology with proceeds going towards The Trevor Project. For 20+ years, The Trevor Project has worked tirelessly on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth, who are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers (Johns et al., 2019, 2020).

This collection of 34 stories is as diverse as the community it supports. Comprised of personal essays, supernatural fiction, fairy tales, romance, noir, and dirty realism to name a few, Mirrors Reflecting Shadows shows MCs searching for acceptance in worlds sometimes fantastical but always relatable in its alienation, murky morals, grime and splendor.

Characters include ghosts and gods, contract killers and CPS investigators, card counters and coke dealers, palace gaurds and hen wranglers, suicidal sons and conflicted parents, priests and thieves, wizards and roadies--and that's just a flash of what resides in this pivitol looking glass.

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1. The Brief Reflection of a 46-Year-Old Queer, Thus Far by Jarrod Campbell

2. The Reaper by Sadee Bee

3. Lady in Waiting by Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson

4. Things That Might Happen On The Way There by D.W. White

5. A Dream Beyond Sorrow by Sebastian Vice

6. Champagne Moment Blown to Shit by Nathan Pettigrew

7. Unfound by Steve Passey

8. And I Shall Send Down My Vengeance Upon Thee by Jay Parr

9. The Hen Butts Out Her Cig and Says, "All Over Now" by Karen Walker

10. The Music Inside by BF Jones

11. Ate by Max Turner

12. It All Ends With A Bang by Astra Crompton

13. Ugly Missy by Andrew Rucker Jones

14. The Attic by C.N. Martin

15. Drawing Out Leviathan by Daniel David Froid

16. Like Baked Alaska by Francesca Leader

17. Freya Goes Viral by Bev Vincent

18. The Barking in Room Seventeen by Barlow Adams

19. Out Of Spark by Justin Lee

20. Lizards and Other Varmints by Shari Held

21. The Something-Whimsical of Firstname Lastname by Claire Humphrey

22. Jack the Greek by Avra Margariti

23. Deep and Dark by Kevin M. Folliard

24. If You Put It On by Die Booth

25. After You by Sophie Kearing

26. On Being Born Again by M.C. Schmidt

27. Vivien’s Heir by Alicia K. Anderson

28. EARLY RISER by David Lee Zweifler

29. I Remember Jenny Stax by Scott Laudati

30. Transfer, Emphasis On Trans by Jennifer Lee Rossman

31. Summoning Sin by Lauren Theresa

32. Anne of the In-Between by Joshuwawa Maza

33. Snow on Miami Beach by Paige Johnson

34. Out of the Earth by Cody Sexton