Table of Contents

September/October 2023

FICTION

The Siren: 1999 by Joyce Carol Oates

Green and California Bound by Curtis Ippolito

Never Enough by Liza Cody

Miss Direction by Rob Osler

The Plunderer by Bill Pronzini

Soon It’ll Be Over by Twist Phelan

A Heist in Three Acts by Amita Murray

The Roadside by Tyler Fiecke

The Spinster’s Yarn by Cath Staincliffe

The Final Final by Jerry Kennealy

Balloon by William Burton McCormick

It’s Not Even Past by Anna Scotti

High Diver by Joseph Koenig

Death and Omens in the Great Library by Thomas K. Carpenter

 

PASSPORT TO CRIME

Free Fall by Kathrin Heinrichs

 

BLACK MASK

Five-Hat Minimum by David Knadler

 

DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES

Two Hours West of Nothing by Gabriela Stiteler

Teddy’s Favorite Thing by Paul Ryan O’Connor

 

NONFICTION AND REVIEWS

The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock

Stranger Than Fiction by Dean Jobb

Blog Bytes by Kristopher Zgorski