Yellow Mama and All Due Respect

When it rains, it pours.

I’m extremely proud, “chuffed,” even, to have stories in both All Due Respect – the long form crime fiction webzine started by Alec Cizak and now run by Chris Rhatigan. Chris also reviews fiction at Death by Killing, co-edits the Pulp Ink anthologies with Nigel Bird, and is a fine writer himself. Alec has moved on to Pulp Modern, and has a few novels under his belt as well.

This story is my tribute to Elmore Leonard, and was originally written for a beach noir contest at Do Some Damage. I expanded and edited it, and I love the characters so much that they will appear in a novel sometime soon. A bit of pulp caper set in Antigua, where two honeymooners need help from Hazeldeen, a barmaid at their resort, and drag her into their “White People problems.”

White People Problems, in All Due Respect

Yellow Mama, named after Alabama’s electric chair, is a crime zine edited by author Cindy Rosmus, who had a cracking tale in last month’s Hardboiled magazine. Yellow Mama caters to dark noir and horror, and my brutal revenge story shows the lengths one man will go to, to avenge his family. Sometimes revenge is a real bear.

Play Dead, in Yellow Mama

I hope you like them. If you do, please leave a comment here or at the source, and share the links with your friends. I’d really appreciate it!

Monday I’ll announce the winner of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader: Flush Fiction giveaway, so stay tuned. 

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