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Showing posts with label Short Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short Stories. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Reviewing Otto Penzler's Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

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In my first  entry to this series, I presented the broader picture of how a culture war is playing out in America as to who gets to tell his...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

A Divide in the Mystery Writing Community

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In the first installment , I examined the culture wars taking place as the storytellers of history — and science fiction — have been changin...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Three Strange Rejections

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Writing and sending out manuscripts for decades now, I've had my share of rejections. From the submission tracker Duotrope, I am told th...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Francis Valencia Ortiz

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My grandfather is the subject of a piece of flash fiction that I wrote and which now appears in the October edition of Rendez-Vous Magazin...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Never Kill A Contest.

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A prize of $100 (US) will be awarded to the author who best completes the short story, The Final Confession , the first 1,100 words of which...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Champion by Ring Lardner

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In order to fill out the available short stories collected in The Golden Argosy , I present Champion by Ring Lardner. Published in October,...
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