Murder at a Wife-Swapping Party from James W. Ziskin

This week's question is Blogger’s choice, a veritable free-for-all, so I’m posting my short story “Prisoner of Love.” This appeared in Get Up Offa That Thing: Crime Fiction Inspired by The Songs of James Brown (May 2023). But it didn’t get much exposure, which makes me sad. I wanted to share it here in the hopes that readers will enjoy a story about a murder at a wife-swapping party on New Year’s Eve 1954. Who wouldn’t like that? 

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