Table of Contents

September/October 2026

FICTION

The Dog Dazer • Jeff Soloway 

Treat or Trick • Mark Thielman

The Silent Partner • Nick Guthrie

The Basement Girl • Harry Hunsicker

No Property in a Witness • Mat Coward

The Bully Must Die • Bret Jones

The Man Who Loved Halloween • Janice Law

The Case of the Ballyhaven Banshee • William J. Demorascki

The Ordnance Special • James D. Crabtree 

Look Back with Kindly Eyes • Dan Crawford 

We, the Aging • Gabriela Stiteler

The Wedding Photographer • Floyd Sullivan

Scraps of the Consequential • Bob Tippee

The Walkout • Kevin Egan

Was That So Hard? • Robert Lopresti

Minerva James and the Goddess of the Hearth • Mark Bruce

 

DEPARTMENTS

Mysterious Photograph • Flash Fiction Writing Contest

Scrambled Hitchcock Stars I Anagram Puzzle • Mark Lagasse

Booked & Printed • Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

The Story That Won

The Lineup