{"id":9934,"date":"2022-08-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:11:33","slug":"july-august-eqmm-and-ahmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9934","title":{"rendered":"July\/August EQMM and AHMM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is it summer and the competition of outdoor activities that cause attention spans to dwindle and make a good collection of short stories extra appealing? Truthfully, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine <\/em>and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Mystery Magazine<\/em> are never out of season. Here are some highlights from their summer issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In EQMM<\/em>:
\u201cServing Process\u201d by Kristine Kathryn Rusch \u2013 anyone who\u2019d save a litter of wet, half-starved and mewling kittens is a hero in my book
\u201cThe Secret Sharer\u201d by W. Edward Blain \u2013 very clever and satisfying tale, and a nice example of how fiction can reflect the realities of covid yet not be about<\/em> covid
\u201cPowerball\u201d by Jack Bunker \u2013 Yes, playing the lottery is a mug\u2019s game, yet some people are just better players than others. In light of last week\u2019s $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot IRL, this story should have a big audience!
\u201cStorm Warning\u201d by Dana Haynes is another table-turning tale that makes you feel that, sometimes, bad deeds work out exactly right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in AHMM<\/em>:
\u201cDeath Will Take the High Line by Elizabeth Zelvin \u2013 Points to her for tackling a story that plunges right into gender identity issues without becoming polemical.
\u201cThe Conversation Killer\u201d by Al Tucher \u2013 in lushly described Hawa`i, a rookie female police officer makes a big mistake.
\u201cThe Man Who Went Down Under\u201d by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson won the 15th<\/sup> annual Black Orchid Novella Award contest. The search for a missing diamond involves quite a few characters, notably, a young P.I.\u2019s interfering and none-too-impressed mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for Great Reading? It\u2019s my quarterly newsletter. Sign up here<\/a> and receive three prize-winning short stories!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it summer and the competition of outdoor activities that cause attention spans to dwindle and make a good collection of short stories extra appealing? Truthfully, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Mystery Magazine are never out of season. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Getting in under the wire with these notable collections of short stories for July\/August. People are already talking about being in the September\/October issues. Where did the summer go?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,3,126,120],"tags":[1974,1840],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","category-reading-2","category-short-story","tag-ahmm","tag-eqmm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2Ae","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}