SleuthSayers: One-Fers and Zero-Fers and Damned Statistics by Robert Mangeot

SleuthSayers: One-Fers and Zero-Fers and Damned Statistics: I know this is the holiday season and all that goodwill stuff, but I'll tell you one thing I'm not feeling good about. Not thankful ...

SleuthSayers: The Big Mo by Robert Mangeot

SleuthSayers: The Big Mo: THE BIG MO GETS ITS, WELL, MO In 1980, George H.W. Bush won the up-first Iowa caucuses and crowned himself the GOP presidential frontrunner,...

Publication News: Mystery Magazine

 

The May issue of Mystery Magazine features stories by:

John M. Floyd. "Pocket Change."

Robert Mangeot. "Flour Dusted and Pan Glossed."

Alan Orloff. "Lita's List."

Joseph S. Walker. "Filthy Looker."

Publication News: Die Laughing

Mystery Weekly Magazine has published Die Laughing: An Anthology of Humorous Mysteries.  This is a hardcover with 45 new tales.  Ten of them are written by members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society:

"Hollywood Dead Naked” by Shakurra Amatulla

“Sure As Apples” by Brandon Barrows

“Blue Light Special” by R.T. Lawton

“Have A Cadaver” by Edward Lodi

“Meet Me At The Morgue” by Robert Lopresti

“Pandora, Haunted” by Robert Mangeot

“All My Darlings” by Charlotte Morganti

“The Vacuum Gang” by Bev Vincent

“Trash Can Stakeout” by Dustin Walker

“Brick Fiend” by Joseph S. Walker
 

SleuthSayers: Don't Make Me Turn This Car Around by Robert Mangeot

SleuthSayers: Don't Make Me Turn This Car Around: I’ve convinced myself–against all experience–that Asheville is four hours from my driveway. Every trip, I’m cranking the music and thinkin...

SleuthSayers: How It's Done These Days by Robert Mangeot

SleuthSayers: How It's Done These Days: It’s 8:00am Saturday, writing day, and I’m so not ready to write. I’d been up late watching That Space Action Buddy Movie That Is Always O...

SleuthSayers: Inspiration Isn't Everywhere by Robert Mangeot

SleuthSayers: Inspiration Isn't Everywhere: It was July 2017, and I needed to write a story. Sure, we writers have our creative urge, but I mean I really needed to write a story right...

SleuthSayers: It's Not Funny to Them by Robert Mangeot

SleuthSayers: It's Not Funny to Them: by Robert Mangeot I should warn you I have a liberal arts education. Now warned, it might not surprise you that I think about classic story ...

SMFS Member Publishing News: Robert Mangeot

SMFS list member Robert Mangeot has a guest post, “Unhappy Place, Unhappy Story” at Trace Evidence. In the piece he discusses writing his short story, “On Loan From the Artist" found in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: November/December 2020 and the role of setting in the tale. The essay can be read here.

Killer Nashville: I Have Become the Timebound by Robert Mangeot

Killer Nashville: I Have Become the Timebound by Robert Mangeot

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Robert Mangeot

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, list member Robert Mangeot shares the April 2015  short story, “First Rodeo: Mystery Short Story” archived at Kings River Life Magazine.

If you would like to be included and are a member of the SMFS list at groups.io, 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 https://groups.io/g/shortmystery

Little Big Crimes Review: Problems Aren't Stop Signs by Robert Mangeot

 Little Big Crimes: Problems Aren't Stop Signs, by Robert Mangeot: "Problems Aren't Stop Signs," by Robert Mangeot, in  Mystery Weekly Magazine, September 2018. This is Mangeot's fourt...

SMFS Members Published In Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2018

Several SMFS list members have works appearing in the just released Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2018 available in print and digital formats from the publisher, Amazon, and elsewhere. The SMFS members in this issue are:

John M. Floyd with “Lightning.”

Steve Liskow with “Teddy Baer’s Picnic.”

Robert Mangeot with “Problems Aren’t Stop Signs.”

Chris McGinley with “Coal Black Haint.”

Jude Roy with “The Money Mattress.”

Earl Staggs with ‘Doctored Justice.”

SMFS Members Published In Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine: July/August 2018

Four members of the SMFS have stories in the Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine: July/August 2018 issue. They are:

Kevin Egan for “The Movie Lover.”

Robert S. Levinson for “Nine Years Later.” The passing of Mr. Levinson is noted at the end of his story as well as the fct that Mr. Levinson won a Derringer award for his 2008 story, “The Quick Brown Fox.”

Robert Mangeot for “Book of Hours.”

Josh Pachter for “Not My Circus.”

Little Big Crimes Review: Queen and Country by Robert Mangeot

Little Big Crimes: Queen and Country, by Robert Mangeot: "Queen and Country," by Robert Mangeot, Mystery Weekly Magazine, March 2018. This is the third appearance by Robert Mangeot ...

Gerald So Interviews 2017 Derringer Finalist Robert Mangeot

Gerald So Interviews 2017 Derringer Finalist Robert Mangeot