Post by benedictjjones on Oct 31, 2012 13:28:52 GMT 1
read this anthology while i was on holiday and thought it was brilliant. shotgun honey's online flashzine stuff has been impressing me for a while (and i'm appearing on there in the next week or two...) and this anthology of shorts maintained that high tradition. There was no filler, just down and gritty crime and while i did think a couple of the stories were slightly derivitive or not my 'bag' the majority were exactly my sort of thing and impressed me a lot.
A highly recomended cross section of modern hardboiled short fiction which I'd readily foist on anyone who likes dark crime.
TOC below:
◦Andrew Nette – King Tut’s Tomb
◦Cameron Ashley – The Blonde Chimera
◦Chris Holm – Not Forgotten
◦Dan O’Shea – Father’s Day
◦Frank Bill – The Jade Bounty
◦Frank Wheeler Jr. – Tapdancing for Idiots
◦Garnett Elliott – Chicken Soup for the Hole
◦Glenn Gray – Intubation
◦Hector Acosta – Jueves
◦Holly West – Regrets Only
◦Jen Conley – Escape
◦Jim Wilsky – Traffick
◦Joe Myers – Cold Read
◦Julia Madeleine – Rage
◦Keith Rawson – 2 Kilograms of Soul
◦Kieran Shea – The Judgement of Roland J. Monroe
◦Matthew C. Funk – Lovely Men
◦Michael Oliveri – The Wrench in Her Works
◦Naomi Johnson – Hero
◦Nigel Bird – Rhythm of Life
◦Nik Korpon – The Owls
◦Patti Abbott – How to Launder a Shirt
◦Paul D. Brazill – Gareth and Fiona Go Abroad
◦Peter Farris – Cut. Copy. Paste. Delete
◦Ray Banks – The Warmest Room
◦Steve Weddle – The Awakening: From the Cyborg Lesbian Vampire Chronicles
◦Thomas Pluck – Train: A Denny the Dent Story
◦Tom Pitts – Luck
◦Trey R. Barker – A Good Boy
A highly recomended cross section of modern hardboiled short fiction which I'd readily foist on anyone who likes dark crime.
TOC below:
◦Andrew Nette – King Tut’s Tomb
◦Cameron Ashley – The Blonde Chimera
◦Chris Holm – Not Forgotten
◦Dan O’Shea – Father’s Day
◦Frank Bill – The Jade Bounty
◦Frank Wheeler Jr. – Tapdancing for Idiots
◦Garnett Elliott – Chicken Soup for the Hole
◦Glenn Gray – Intubation
◦Hector Acosta – Jueves
◦Holly West – Regrets Only
◦Jen Conley – Escape
◦Jim Wilsky – Traffick
◦Joe Myers – Cold Read
◦Julia Madeleine – Rage
◦Keith Rawson – 2 Kilograms of Soul
◦Kieran Shea – The Judgement of Roland J. Monroe
◦Matthew C. Funk – Lovely Men
◦Michael Oliveri – The Wrench in Her Works
◦Naomi Johnson – Hero
◦Nigel Bird – Rhythm of Life
◦Nik Korpon – The Owls
◦Patti Abbott – How to Launder a Shirt
◦Paul D. Brazill – Gareth and Fiona Go Abroad
◦Peter Farris – Cut. Copy. Paste. Delete
◦Ray Banks – The Warmest Room
◦Steve Weddle – The Awakening: From the Cyborg Lesbian Vampire Chronicles
◦Thomas Pluck – Train: A Denny the Dent Story
◦Tom Pitts – Luck
◦Trey R. Barker – A Good Boy