SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Jacqueline Seewald

Each Saturday, we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for free. These short stories are at least a year old.  

For SMFS Short Story Saturdays today, Jacqueline Seewald shares the 2014 published short story, “Murder and Money” archived at Over My Dead Body!  

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Jim Doherty

Back in May SMFS celebrated, as we do each year, International Short Story Month. The celebration led to the creation of the weekly short story segment SMFS Short Story Saturdays. Each Saturday we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for free. These short stories are at least a year old and were not previously linked to during the May 2018 Short Story Month event.

Today for SMFS Short Story Saturdays, Jim Doherty shares two stories that feature his series  character, peripatetic cop Dan Sullivan, who's also the lead in his novel, An Obscure Grave. They should be read in order as they feature Dan at different points of his career. Both stories were award winners in the contests they were written for several years ago.

First up is “Stench” archived at Mysterical-E. Please note that at some point during a site update or something, all the quotation marks in the story were replaced with diamond shaped question marks. Read accordingly.

Second is “Death and Taxes” archived at Over My Dead Body!

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Joan Leotta

SMFS Short Story Saturdays was born out of the very successful International Short Story Month this year. Each Saturday we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for free. These short stories are at least a year old and were not previously linked to during the May 2018 Short Story Month event.

Today for SMFS Short Story Saturdays, Joan Leotta shares her 2015 short story, “A Cup of Comfort” archived at Over My Dead Body!

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.

SMFS Member Publication News: James Blake

SMFS list member James Blakey’s short story, “The Last Case” has just been published by Over My Dead Body!

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Merrilee Robson

SMFS Short Story Saturdays was born out of the very successful International Short Story Month this year. Each Saturday we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for free. These short stories are at least a year old and were not previously linked to during the May 2018 Short Story Month event.

Today for SMFS Short Story Saturdays, Merrilee Robson shares “The Way To A Man’s Heart” from the archives at Over My Dead Body!

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.

A Short Walk Down A Dark Street: Issue 21

As posted by Peter DiChellis to our list….

This week’s blog bribes the preacher to deliver a sweet sermon about short mystery and crime fiction: links to reviews, releases, and new freebies at OMDB! Plus, an essay on the pain and pleasure of reading and writing shorts.

Includes links to a Donald E. Westlake Dortmunder collection and a review of a classic anthology of mystery stories by authors Pearl S. Buck, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and others (eds. Danay and Lee, aka Ellery Queen).

A short walk down a dark street (#21)

https://shortwalkdarkstreet.wordpress.com/2018/10/07/short-walk-21/

Best wishes,

Peter

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: William Burton McCormick

SMFS Short Story Saturdays was born out of the very successful International Short Story Month this year. Each Saturday we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for free. These short stories are at least a year old and were not previously linked to during the May 2018 Short Story Month event.

Today for SMFS Short Story Saturdays, William Burton McCormick shares “The Interpreter” archived at Over My Dead Body!

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Jacqueline Seewald

SMFS Short Story Saturdays was born out of the very successful International Short Story Month this year. Each Saturday we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for free. These short stories are at least a year old and were not previously linked to during the May 2018 Short Story Month event.

Today for SMFS Short Story Saturdays, Jacqueline Seewald shares “The Heir Hunt” archived at Over My Dead Body!  The read features her “Sweethearts Detective Agency.”

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.

SMFS Member Publication News: Peter DiChellis

SMFS member Peter DiChellis had two stories published recently that are available to read online. Peter’s You-Solve-It mystery “The Action Hero Murder” appears at Over My Dead Body! and his crime-horror story “Gravedigger Blues” was reprinted at Story and Grit (originally published at Yellow Mama in 2013).

Short Story Month: Jacqueline Seewald

StoryADay.org proclaimed May International Short Story Month back in 2013. As the short story, in the mystery genre is the reason why the Short Mystery Fiction Society exists, we join in the celebration each year. The SMFS spin on festivities is to highlight one or more members’ online stories per day. 

Today, Jacqueline Seewald shares “Genesis” archived at Over My Dead Body! 

If you’d like to be included, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple  at Verizon dot net.