Crime Syndicate Magazine is back with ten fantastic crime fiction short stories from some of the top crime writers on the market today. Guest-edited by Eryk Pruitt, this issue has a little something for Work out your drugged-out marital problems and feed your family from the East Texas countryside in Eryk Pruitt's "The Deplorables.Find out if you're being detained, and what depraved results the answer might hold in Kevin Z. Garvey's "Good Cop Bad Cop."Reach for the sky and fall through the floor in Max Booth III's "Below the Angels."Can you escape a schmuck's fate in Dennis Day's throwback historical noir story "Schmuck?"Help your new college bestie murder a New Orleans local "god" in Nina Mansfield's "Gods and Virgins in the Big Easy."Think twice before you front on an old schooler in S.A. Cosby's "Slit the Belly."Take in the beard cream smell while you take down some skinny jeans in Travis Richardson's "Hipster Pantsin'."Show off your new racist jail tat while you dredge up demons from the past in Paul Heatley's "The Whitest Boy on the Block."Get your trap music murder on in Allen Griffin's "Dirty South of Heaven.""Take down career criminals and the ghosts from your past in David A. Anthony's "The Contractors."
Eryk Pruitt is a screenwriter, author and filmmaker living in Durham, NC with his wife Lana and cat Busey. His short films FOODIE and LIYANA, ON COMMAND have won several awards at film festivals across the US. His fiction appears in The Avalon Literary Review, Pulp Modern, Thuglit, and Zymbol, to name a few. In 2013, he was a finalist for Best Short Fiction in Short Story America and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes for 2014. His novel Dirtbags was published in April 2014, and HASHTAG will be published in May, 2015. A full list of credits can be found at erykpruitt.com.