Rusty Barnes' story "Number A" is available at Beat to a Pulp.
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Showing posts with label Rusty Barnes. Show all posts
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
SMFS Member Publishing News: Rusty Barnes
SMFS list member Rusty Barnes’s new book, Kraj
the Enforcer: Stories is now out. Published by Shotgun Honey, the read
is available in print and digital formats from the publisher
as well as Amazon
and other vendors.
Amazon Synopsis:
Meet Kraj—pronounced krai—a low-level errand
boy and hitman masquerading as a bouncer for Tricky Ricky Gutierrez, nefarious
owner of the Twist, a club in upstate Elmira NY. A place that has both a
LGBTQIA night and a cowboy country night, this cockeyed corner bar in northern
Appalachia supports Ricky’s illegal schemes, and serves as a rural balm for
Croatian-war refugee Kraj.
Kraj plies his trade over a short span, moving from petty theft to strong-arming tips from people at the door, breaking up redneck fights, protecting the club’s nubile female staff and collecting gambling debts owed Tricky Ricky. Kraj eventually gets sucked further and further into Ricky’s underworld plans, where he wants to be seen as a man on the come-up, but he has problems moving up in Ricky's organization will never solve. His sister Ana, missing since the Croatian War for Independence, never strays far from his mind.
Kraj, together with his sometime girlfriend Cami, newly become manager of a franchisee McDonald’s, and his manager Mikael. negotiates his way through underground fight clubs, prostitution rings, drug deals, petty thievery, and of course, murder. Tricky Ricky gives Kraj a great deal of rope and autonomy to operate.
Will he hang himself with it or swing?
Kraj plies his trade over a short span, moving from petty theft to strong-arming tips from people at the door, breaking up redneck fights, protecting the club’s nubile female staff and collecting gambling debts owed Tricky Ricky. Kraj eventually gets sucked further and further into Ricky’s underworld plans, where he wants to be seen as a man on the come-up, but he has problems moving up in Ricky's organization will never solve. His sister Ana, missing since the Croatian War for Independence, never strays far from his mind.
Kraj, together with his sometime girlfriend Cami, newly become manager of a franchisee McDonald’s, and his manager Mikael. negotiates his way through underground fight clubs, prostitution rings, drug deals, petty thievery, and of course, murder. Tricky Ricky gives Kraj a great deal of rope and autonomy to operate.
Will he hang himself with it or swing?
Monday, September 2, 2019
SMFS Member Publishing News: Rusty Barnes
SMFS List member Rusty Barnes’ short
story, “The Russian,” appears in Mystery
Tribune: Summer 2019 Issue 20. You can buy it in print or digital format at
their website.
Synopsis:
·
A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Reed
Farrel Coleman, Rusty Barnes, Casey Barrett, Brett Busang, Vincent H. O’Neil,
David Rachels, Scott Loring Sanders, Mark Slade, and Robb White.
·
Interviews and Reviews by Alex Segura, Nick Kolakowski, Tobias
Carroll, and Erica Wright.
·
Art and Photography by Michael McCluskey, Patrick Clelland, and
more.
This issue also features
a preview of the new Bury The Lede graphic novel by CGaby Dunn and Claire Roe.
NY Times Bestselling
author Reed Farrel Coleman has called Mystery Tribune “a cut above” and mystery
grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised it for its
“solid fiction” and “the most elegant design”.
An elegantly crafted
quarterly issue, printed on uncoated paper and with a beautiful layout designed
for optimal reading experience, our Summer 2019 issue will make a perfect
companion or gift for avid mystery readers and fans of literary crime fiction.
Your
issue will typically arrive within 2-3 weeks after availability.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Sunday, December 2, 2018
SMFS Member Publishing News: Rusty Barnes
SMFS list member Rusty Barnes’s short story, “Bad Old Boy”
appears in Goliad Review 1.2. Published by Goliad Press, the read is available in
both print and digital formats from Amazon.
Amazon Synopsis:
This second issue of
Goliad Review contains work by award winning authors, critics, and poets. It
features new poetry from American poet Cynthia Cruz; an essay on the state of
literary criticism by William Logan; an excerpt from working-class fiction author
Patrick Michael Finn's new novel. Plus, new work from Jesse Graves, George
Singleton, and much more.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
SMFS Member Publishing News: Rusty Barnes
SMFS list member Rusty Barnes’s short story, “Ghost Road” appears
in the just released Mystery Tribune Issue No. 6: Summer 2018.
Currently available from the publisher
in print format it most likely will soon be for sale on Amazon as well in print
and digital formats.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Short Story Month: Rusty Barnes
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, Rusty Barnes shares “Monongahela Run” archived at Plots With Guns.
If you would like to be included, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at
Verizon dot net.
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