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Story A Day: “Match Game Seventy Blank” by Matt Sailor

Another piece of very short fiction here (after spending a day grading seemingly endless essays, it’s all I have time […]

Keeping up with my plans despite being exhausted by the long, fun weekend at Malice. Today’s story is actually five

Here’s a quick story, since I’ve got a busy day—and night!—ahead at Malice Domestic. Venita Blackburn’s “Chew” was published by

In her Washington Post review of Karen Russell’s story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, novelist and critic Elizabeth Hand

Second up in my promise to read a story a day in the month in the month of May is Sheila

May 1 kicks off the “first organized international Short Story Month,” inspired by the StoryADay in May writing challenge. There’s

Art Taylor / April 1, 2013

I’m honored, awed, and humbled to have won a third Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society—this year in

Art Taylor / February 9, 2013

I’m thrilled that my story “When Duty Calls,” from the anthology Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder (Wildside Press), has

Art Taylor / January 27, 2013

Ellery Queen has just published the first of two of my stories scheduled for 2013. “The Care and Feeding of

Art Taylor / September 19, 2012

The annual Fall for the Book Festival is one of the biggest events on my calendar each year — and

“Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which was originally published in PANK last fall, won first place in the flash

A couple of short stories online caught my attention recently, and then a full anthology crossed my desk — each