{"id":9209,"date":"2021-09-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2021-09-09T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:10:00","slug":"short-story-collections-eqmm-sept-oct-fiction-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9209","title":{"rendered":"Short Story Collections: EQMM (Sept\/Oct) &#038; Fiction River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/18064460803_636fe0c012_z.jpg?resize=227%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"reading, apple\" class=\"wp-image-4687\" width=\"227\" height=\"314\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its 80<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary issue, <em>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/em> assembled almost 200 pages of short stories, book reviews, and blog suggestions. Among my favorite stories this issue were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jane Jakeman\u2019s \u201cTrick or Treat\u201d\u2014She adds an element of timelessness to her tale of small-town revenge by heading scene breaks with quotes like these: \u201cBeware of meeting a witch underground, for then she is at her most powerful\u2014<em>The Grimoire of Lysbet Malkin.<\/em>\u201d<\/li><li>Matt Goldman\u2019s entertaining \u201cSixteen Lies\u201d (but who\u2019s counting?).in which a savvy private eye unravels the motives that led to the death of a disabled woman, which his client, the dead woman\u2019s sister, believes is suspicious. The fake-supportive banter between the sister and her husband is priceless.<\/li><li>\u201cDemon in the Depths,\u201d a novella by William Burton McCormick kept me riveted. A reporter\u2019s Norwegian expedition to investigate her great-grandmother\u2019s death in a mysterious plane crash some 60 years earlier is disrupted by volcanic debris, subzero temperatures, international politics, and a 500-year-old Greenland shark.<\/li><li>And I liked John F. Dobbyn\u2019s adventure poem, \u201cNugget,\u201d which begins: \u201cI\u2019d come in from our claim on the Klondike that week, and I\u2019d made it just under the gun. The trails and the rivers were hell on the dogs, once the icing and snows had begun.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fiction River\u2019s latest anthology, <em>Dark and Deadly Passions<\/em>, deals with crimes that come from emotion\u2014especially extreme emotion. Editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a story in the above issue of <em>Ellery Queen<\/em>, and her long story for <em>Fiction River<\/em>, \u201cGrief Spam,\u201d was one I couldn\u2019t put down. Other especially good tales included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Annie Reed\u2019s \u201cMissing Carolyn,\u201d which shows just how complicated revenge can be.<\/li><li>Lauryn Christopher\u2019s&nbsp; \u201cTilting at Windmills,\u201d demonstrating that art can have unexpected value.<\/li><li>Michael Warren Lucas\u2019s \u201cGetting Away with It\u201d further shows that the value of art depends on the beholder.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For its 80th Anniversary issue, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine assembled almost 200 pages of short stories, book reviews, and blog suggestions. 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