SMFS Member Publishing News: The Good Samaritan by Shari Held

 

SMFS list member Shari Held’s mystery short story, The Good Samaritan, was published today at Kings River Life Magazine. You can read the piece for free online here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: The Girl by Shari Held

 

SMFS list member Shari Held’s short story, The Girl, appears online at White Cat Publications. You can read it online for free here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: The Healing Garden by Shari Held

SMFS list member Shari Held’s short story, The Healing Garden, appears in the January 11, 2023, issue of the weekly newsletter, Texas Gardener’s Seeds. You can read it online for free here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Halloween at the Old Jackson House by Shari Held

 

SMFS list member Shari Held’s short story, Halloween at the Old Jackson House, appears today at Kings River Life Magazine. You can read it for free here.

Publication News: Yellow Mama

 

Issue 92 of Yellow Mama Webzine is available for free and contains:

Pam Ebel. "Dead Men Don't Text."

Shari Held. "Two Little Words."

Merrilee Robson. "Why I Left the House that Smelled of Death."

Publication News: The Big Fang

 

The Harbor Humane Society has just published The Big Fang.  It includes:

Shari Held. "The Parrot from Primrose Lane."

Joseph S. Walker. "Like a Good Neighbor."

Member Publication News: Shari Held

 Shari Held's story "The Ageless Art of Dating" appears in The Dating Game, out this month from Red Penguin.

Publication News: BOULD Anthology

 

The 2021 edition of the BOULD Awards anthology has been published in two volumes.  Stories by Society members include:

David Bart. “Human Beans.” “The Odor of Wisdom.” “Search for Intelligent Life.” “The Grin Reaper.” “Killing Things.” “Rosemary Cloning.” 

M.H. Callway. “Incompetence Kills.”

Chris Chan. "What Are Friends For?" "Divorce Ages You."

Jan Christensen. “Oh Baby.”

Elizabeth Dearborn. "Frozen Meat.” (Fourth Place winner) "Skin and Bone."

Lesley A. Diehl: “What an Ass!”

Pam Ebel. ”Grandma’s Last Ride” “The Committee.” “Mama Knows.” “The Great Escape.” “The Quest.” “For Mr. Kite.”

Eve Fisher. “Shut In.”

John Floyd. "Sand Hill." "The Range." and "High Anxiety." “The Noon Stage.” “High Places.” “Stopover.”

Dona Fox. “In the Weakness of the Waning Moon.”

Kaye George. “The Fall.” “The Takeover.” “Driving out of Dumas.”

Debra H. Goldstein. “The Atonement Contract.”

Margaret S. Hamilton. "Once a Kappa."

Shari Held. “VooDoo Wedding" (Third Place winner) "Brigette Brown's Revenge.”  “In the Belly of the Beast.” "Cinderella's Escape." "Adventures in Shopping." "Wingin' It." "Nightshift." “Winner’s Luck.”

Sharon Hollinger. “A Mother’s Heart.”  (Second Place winner)

Clifford Royal Johns. "The Quality of Death."

Eleanor Cawood Jones. "All My Exes Die in Texas."

Sharyn Kolberg. “Wish You Were Here.”

Julie Leo. "Office Party."

Joan Leotta. “a cup of comfort.” “wish upon a falling star.”

Karen McCullough. “Red Eyes in the Morning.”  (First Place winner)

“Reservations Required.”

Adam Meyer. “"Under the Bed."

Tom Milani. “Lawyer Lips.”

Cate Moyle. “Cold Memory of Crows.”

Erica Obey. “The Riddle of the Empty Armory.”

Merrilee Robson. "The Mercy Killer"

Elena E. Smith. “Bench.” “Service Providers.”  “A Very Expensive Wedding.” “Desert Day.” “Office Wife.”

Kevin R. Tipple. "The Tell." "Burdens." "Obsession."

Sylvia Warsh."Family Values.”

Stormy White. “Fireworks.”

 

Publication News: Trick or Treats

 

Speed City just published Trick or Treats: Tales of All Hallows' Eve.  Stories include:

Shari Held: "The Mystery of the Mirror"

Karen Phillips: "The Curse of the Benjamin Mansion"

Publication News: Asinine Assassins

 

Smart Rhino Publications has just released Asinine Assassins.  Among the stories included are Jeff Markowitz's "The Third Rule Date," and Shari Held's "Lizards and Other Varmints." Also Blair Keetch's "Killings 4 Sale," and James Dorr's "Shooting Fish."

Member Publication: Shari Held

 Red Penguin just published Between the Covers: An Adult Romance Anthology.  The first story is Shari Held's "Boys and Other Toys."