The POWER of PREPOSITIONS by Leigh Lundin Aladdin was getting along in years and found that he was unable to pitch a tent as he had done in his youth. Smart as well as lucky, Aladdin still had his genie in a lamp and, frugal with his wishes, he had one wish left. He rubbed […]

Kevin Wignall, our very first contributor from the Other Side of the Pond, is the author of three highly acclaimed novels and a half dozen exceptional short stories for Ellery Queen and a handful of anthologies. You can read his first story for EQMM, “The Window”, here. You can read a review of his story, […]

LISTENING TO CRIME by Steven Steinbock Last week I rambled for almost two pages about mystery stories and OTR (that’s “Old Time Radio” for anyone who missed last week’s Bandersnatches). The trouble with rambling is that you run the risk of never getting to your original point. (The advantage of rambling is that sometimes Serendipity […]

THE BIG LEAP by Deborah Elliott-Upton Do you know what these movies have in common? “The Shawshank Redemption” “All About Eve” “High Noon” “Stand By Me” “Psycho” “Blow-Up” “The Fly” “It’s a Wonderful Life” “The Birds” “3:10 to Yuma” For those who’ve said they don’t enjoy short stories, I beg to differ. I bet most […]

THE ODD SOCKS DEPARTMENT by Robert Lopresti Welcome to our fall clearance! I am sweeping out my notebook, shaking out a few ideas that are too thin to be a post of their own, but too interesting (I hope) to shred. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Cue the cackle. Imagine that you are […]

TEACHING THE CRAFT by Melodie Johnson Howe I taught an intensive writer’s work shop for the Santa Barbara Writers Conference this weekend. It went from nine to five on Saturday and nine to three on Sunday. For about two days a group of us were shut off from the news of O.J., pandering politicians, and […]

For the third time, that being the requisite ordinal for charm, I am presenting the only story I have ever written specifically for internet publication. It was composed for Paul Guyot’s late and lamented blog Inkslinger for a contest. If I remember correctly, the rules were that the story had to involve an armored truck […]