The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog

My mystery "Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" was reprinted this month in FICTION RIVER PRESENTS: Writers Without Borders . ...

Catherine Dilts Reviews: Blasts from the Past

Houdini (he died on Halloween in 1926) has always fascinated me, so I thought it would be fun to write a short story about him.   What if...

TOUGH: The Uninhabited, fiction by Michael Bracken : As I rounded the corner of the one-room stone cabin and stopped, Melita Blanco rose nak...

Little Big Crimes: Aramis and the Worm, by Michael Mallory : "Aramis and the Worm," by Michael Mallory, in ALfed Hitchcock's M...

My story "Fatal Flaw" featuring Nick Donahue is up today at Kings River Life Magazine . It's a tale of an International gamb...

Little Big Crimes: Cabin Fever, by David Edgerley Gates : "Cabin Fever," by David Edgerley Gates, in Alfred Hitchcock's Myster...