Just Don’t Sell It Short

The summer edition of Spinetingler Magazine has been posted, with “more shorts than even the average woman needs to survive the heat,” according to editor Sandra Ruttan. Included in the contents are book reviews; an interview with Tony Black, author of the forthcoming novel Paying for It; and a profile of the fiction-writing resource The Graveyard Shift. But the body of this latest Spinetingler, Ruttan explains in her Editor’s Note, is given over to very short stories:

Most of these stories have been out there before, courtesy of Tribe’s Flash in the Gutters. Readers will probably remember the Hump the Stump stories that inspired the cover for this issue, as well as the offerings from Patti Abbott, Amra Pajalic and Stephen D. Rogers. There are also new, original stories from Allan Guthrie, Steve Mosby, Tony Black, Brian Lindenmuth, Grant McKenzie, John McFetridge and more. Jam-packed with goodies, this issue serves as a tribute to Tribe, whose contribution to the mystery community couldn’t be measured. No one, single site has been able to match what he did for short fiction, and we raise a glass of (appropriately) shrimp cocktail to him and thank him for all he did.

Again, the full contents can be found here.