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Guilty Crime Story Magazine: Issue 006 - Fall 2022
Guilty is a magazine of crime stories, of criminals, their motivations and their beginnings and ends.
In issue
"Overnights at the Bumblebee Motel" by Michael Grimala - Hannah disappeared without a clue, but something about the motel's sign made it as good a place to look as any.
"One Last Ride" by Brandon Barrows - It was already past midnight and Drew was dead tired. This fare would be his last - one way or another!
"Peepin' and Hidin'" by Steve Liskow - Craig's new neighbor Wes was awful, but bad things can always get worse...
"You Wouldn't Shoot Me" by Anderson Barnes - The money was already stolen, now it was a matter of who it would belong to.
"Some Sunny Day, Baby" by Joseph S. Walker - Even crooked cops can't be all bad, right?
"I'll Scratch Yours" by Thomas Nicholson - Sooner or later, our sins have a way of catching up to us...
"The John Wesley Hardin Rag" by Coy Hall - Hollywood magic and illusions make the unreal seem true, but they can only take you so far...
"The Jeff Davis 8" (true crime) by N. Fraley
All brand-new material by top writers!
In issue
"Overnights at the Bumblebee Motel" by Michael Grimala - Hannah disappeared without a clue, but something about the motel's sign made it as good a place to look as any.
"One Last Ride" by Brandon Barrows - It was already past midnight and Drew was dead tired. This fare would be his last - one way or another!
"Peepin' and Hidin'" by Steve Liskow - Craig's new neighbor Wes was awful, but bad things can always get worse...
"You Wouldn't Shoot Me" by Anderson Barnes - The money was already stolen, now it was a matter of who it would belong to.
"Some Sunny Day, Baby" by Joseph S. Walker - Even crooked cops can't be all bad, right?
"I'll Scratch Yours" by Thomas Nicholson - Sooner or later, our sins have a way of catching up to us...
"The John Wesley Hardin Rag" by Coy Hall - Hollywood magic and illusions make the unreal seem true, but they can only take you so far...
"The Jeff Davis 8" (true crime) by N. Fraley
All brand-new material by top writers!
106 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2022
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March 31, 2023
Guilty Crime Story Magazine: Issue Six, Fall 2022, opens with “Overnights at the Bumblebee Motel” by Michael Grimala. Gordon has a driven a long way from Ohio to southern Louisiana in search of Hannah. He thinks the Bumblebee Motel might offer a clue or two in his search. He needs to find his sister.
Publisher and Editor Brandon Barrows is next with “One Last Ride.” Foley just wants to park his cab the night and go to bed. Dispatcher Hugh Spenser is a serious annoyance and he is not done with Foley yet. Instead, because the next driver is out sick, Foley has to keep working. He has to go to the airport on a nasty night and pick up a passenger named Thomas Bailey. Foley’s Bed, and his unhappy wife, are going to have to wait.
Steve Liskow’s short story, “Peepin’ and Hiddin’” is next where at least one of the neighbors is a real jerk. Unfortunately, he is teaching his own son the same bad ideas. Wes and Louie have fireworks, cherry bombs to be specific, and are perfectly willing to use them. It is July 1st, a drought is happening, and they have zero concern for others in their condo complex. That is going to change.
Dan Moore knows the kid is up to something in “You Wouldn’t Shoot Me” by Anderson Barnes. He tailed him from the buss and followed him off the bus at a stop in Roxbury. Every step they take sends Dan Moore deeper in a neighborhood he does not know and where it seems everyone is watching him.
He used to be a cop. Now, each evening, he sits in a bar and limits himself to five drinks. He plays an inner game with himself in “Some Sunny Day, Baby” by Joseph S. Walker and tries to figure out if this will be the night he goes for six. That is until a face from long ago, Anson Brancato, shows up and tells him of a problem and Carl Denham. Favors are owed and he owes Carl Denham.
“I’ll Scratch Yours” by Thomas Nicholson is next where our man is on a massage table having his bad shoulder and more worked on by an unseen masseuse. The department is paying and it should help him feel better. It might actually work if she did not talk so much. She has a lot to say.
The author, Mr. James, is meeting with a man known to some as Mr. John Wesley Hardin about an upcoming movie. It is to be a western and he had some questions as Wyatt Earp, still living out in California, told him to get gone. Lonnie put the two together for his own reasons. Getting Mr. James to show up was just the first step in the plan in “The John Wesley Hardin Rag by Coy Hall.
The issue closes with the nonfiction piece, “The Jeff Davis 8: A True Crime Story” by. N. Fraley. It recounts the discovery of eight women in and around various bodies of water in Jennings, Louisiana. During the period between 2005 and 2009 the bodies of the women were found. All were sex workers who may have been killed by a serial killer. They may have been the victims of rogue police officers. We may never know as this piece explains.
As always, the stories in Guilty Crime Story Magazine: Issue Six, Fall 2022 are not happy reads. Like the tales in previous ones, these are not tales of people drinking tea, cats hanging out, or ones that make one content with the state of the world where one is sure all will work out. Far from it. Darkness, in a variety of ways, is probed in the tales that make up this issue. While this reader had his own favorites, all are solidly good reads.
My reading copy was a purchase of the eBook last October by way of funds in my Amazon Associate account.A
Kevin R. Tipple © 2023
Publisher and Editor Brandon Barrows is next with “One Last Ride.” Foley just wants to park his cab the night and go to bed. Dispatcher Hugh Spenser is a serious annoyance and he is not done with Foley yet. Instead, because the next driver is out sick, Foley has to keep working. He has to go to the airport on a nasty night and pick up a passenger named Thomas Bailey. Foley’s Bed, and his unhappy wife, are going to have to wait.
Steve Liskow’s short story, “Peepin’ and Hiddin’” is next where at least one of the neighbors is a real jerk. Unfortunately, he is teaching his own son the same bad ideas. Wes and Louie have fireworks, cherry bombs to be specific, and are perfectly willing to use them. It is July 1st, a drought is happening, and they have zero concern for others in their condo complex. That is going to change.
Dan Moore knows the kid is up to something in “You Wouldn’t Shoot Me” by Anderson Barnes. He tailed him from the buss and followed him off the bus at a stop in Roxbury. Every step they take sends Dan Moore deeper in a neighborhood he does not know and where it seems everyone is watching him.
He used to be a cop. Now, each evening, he sits in a bar and limits himself to five drinks. He plays an inner game with himself in “Some Sunny Day, Baby” by Joseph S. Walker and tries to figure out if this will be the night he goes for six. That is until a face from long ago, Anson Brancato, shows up and tells him of a problem and Carl Denham. Favors are owed and he owes Carl Denham.
“I’ll Scratch Yours” by Thomas Nicholson is next where our man is on a massage table having his bad shoulder and more worked on by an unseen masseuse. The department is paying and it should help him feel better. It might actually work if she did not talk so much. She has a lot to say.
The author, Mr. James, is meeting with a man known to some as Mr. John Wesley Hardin about an upcoming movie. It is to be a western and he had some questions as Wyatt Earp, still living out in California, told him to get gone. Lonnie put the two together for his own reasons. Getting Mr. James to show up was just the first step in the plan in “The John Wesley Hardin Rag by Coy Hall.
The issue closes with the nonfiction piece, “The Jeff Davis 8: A True Crime Story” by. N. Fraley. It recounts the discovery of eight women in and around various bodies of water in Jennings, Louisiana. During the period between 2005 and 2009 the bodies of the women were found. All were sex workers who may have been killed by a serial killer. They may have been the victims of rogue police officers. We may never know as this piece explains.
As always, the stories in Guilty Crime Story Magazine: Issue Six, Fall 2022 are not happy reads. Like the tales in previous ones, these are not tales of people drinking tea, cats hanging out, or ones that make one content with the state of the world where one is sure all will work out. Far from it. Darkness, in a variety of ways, is probed in the tales that make up this issue. While this reader had his own favorites, all are solidly good reads.
My reading copy was a purchase of the eBook last October by way of funds in my Amazon Associate account.A
Kevin R. Tipple © 2023
November 19, 2022
Another winner for Guilty Crime Story Magazine. The stories in this issue are variations on relationships, crimes of opportunity, and a dose of bad luck. A boy looking for his missing girlfriend, in Michael Grimala’s entry, finds out that playing amateur detective can mean walking away from the truth. Brandon Barrow’s hapless cab driver dreams of a better life and comes tantalizingly close to getting it. In Peepin’ and Hidin’ Steve Lisko pushes neighborhood strife to the limits. In great noir tradition, the main character in Anderson Barnes’ story tops bad luck with even worse. Some Sunny Day, Baby by Joseph S. Walker is a heart-breaking tale of sorrow, death, and the weight of revenge. Thomas Nicholson’s is also about revenge, but from a completely different perspective. Coy Hall’s John Wesley Hardin Rag is part western, part old Hollywood, and delightfully cynical, if that’s even a thing. N. Fraley closes this issue with a true crime story that is more chilling than many pieces of fiction. All in all, a very interesting selection and a worthy addition to what is fast becoming a go-to publication to discover new talent in crime writing.
May 2, 2025
Not enough good…
… stories to balance out the bad ones. Also, nothing outstanding or even very good. Nothing else to add, but I need five more words. 🤪
… stories to balance out the bad ones. Also, nothing outstanding or even very good. Nothing else to add, but I need five more words. 🤪
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