SMFS member James Blakey reports that his short story, “The
Hockey Card Heist’ appears in the current issue of Woman’s World Magazine. The story is in the “solve-it yourself”
section of the March 25, 2019 issue.
Mr. Blakey also passes on word that his short story, “The
Case of the Vanishing Unicorns” is in the new anthology,
Gunsmoke & Dragonfire: A
Fantasy Western Anthology. Edited by Diane Morrison and just published
by Aradia Publishing, the read is currently available in digital format at
Amazon.
Synopsis:
From the drought-plagued
plains of Mars, to a post-apocalyptic Canada, to the familiar American West and
Mexico, to other dimensions and other worlds weird and wonderful, an
international cast of bestselling, award-winning, established, and emerging
authors brings you 25 strange western tales:
Robert Lee Beers - A hardboiled P.I. and his partner must
find their way back to the present from 1906 San Francisco before the Big One
hits, dodging gunslingers and the risk of changing history, with only a drunken
misanthropic wizard to help them...
James Blakey - A sheriff must question a colourful cast of
characters to discover who has stolen a unicorn rancher's herd...
Zach Chapman - A card-cheating Spellslinger must duel a
mysterious Green Gunslinger to his damnation or salvation...
Sara Codair - Two Martian sheriffs must stop a gang of
outlaws from stealing a settlement's precious water, if they can keep their
marriage together long enough to do it...
Eric S. Fomley - A marshal comes to town seeking an outlaw,
but neither he nor the outlaw are the ordinary kind...
Milo James Fowler – Heroic Coyote Cal, the witch Donna
Jamieson, and his faithful sidekick Big Yap, must stop a monster from ravaging
the livestock and people of a town in the western desert...
Ron S. Friedman - A WWI pilot shot down over the Amazon must
survive Germans, crazy scientists, the jungle and dinosaurs...
Carrie Gessner - An elven veteran is called back to face her
demons when a little girl is snatched to serve the army that destroyed her...
Paul Alex Gray - The heir to the Bourbon Throne must earn
coin in America to overthrow the French Republic and reclaim his birthright, so
he builds a fantastic contraption to aid him...
Jude-Marie Green - Sorceress Jane Smith knows her partner
Donna Quick is quite mad, but she follows her anyway...
Brent A. Harris - Marshal Bass Reeves has been asked for help
by a desperate frontier settlement beleaguered by a dragon...
Ethan Hedman - A wandering gunfighter inherits an enchanted
weapon, but it's broken...
Joachim Heijndermans - Two outlaws hole up in a quiet town
full of terrified townsfolk, but all is not as it seems...
Russell Hemmell - Two investigators must discover why an
entire colony in the Kuiper Belt has disappeared, leaving nothing but an
anachronistic western frontier town in its place...
Liam Hogan - A young outlaw is hunted by an implacable
mechanical foe...
G. Scott Huggins - A blacksmith with ghostly allies receives
an unusual, and dangerous, client...
Sean Jones - The last Norse descendant in North America, who
swears vengeance on the Comanche for killing his wife and village, is given
supernatural aid by the Navajo...
Mackenzie Kincaid - Junior died helping Pa maintain the fence
against the Somethings, so now 12-year-old Jane must take his place...
R. Daniel Lester - An old tap-dancing celebrity defaults on
the payments for his magical shoes, and a repo agent has come to collect...
Diane Morrison - Two young elven Gunslingers must stop a
cannibal spirit before it, or the blizzard it brings, kills everyone they
know...
Diana L. Paxson - A painter journeys to the Rockies to paint
landscapes, and stumbles upon an ancient mystery...
Claire Ryan - Rollo is going to get her giant slug herd in to
market, come hell or high water, monster or no monster...
Ricardo Victoria - An ex-spellslinger has taken up a career
as a travelling salesbeing of a newfangled weapon called a "rifle"...
Stanley B. Webb - A U.S. Marshal must stop a notorious outlaw
who may or may not be a dragon...
We invite you to explore these stories in the grand pulp
fiction tradition: from weird westerns, to sci-fi and space westerns, to
post-apocalyptic westerns, alternate history, time travel, and cattlepunk.
Featuring a classic Solomon Kane story by Robert E. Howard.
