*Patricia Abbott: I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly and Other Stories by Mary Ladd Gavell <https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2022/12/short-story-wednesday-i-cannot-tell-lie.html>* *Frank Babics: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang; <http://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2022/12/casual-shorts-isfdb-top-short-fiction_27.html> "Jeffty is Five" by Harlan Ellison; <http://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2022/12/casual-shorts-isfdb-top-short-fiction_25.html>"The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft <http://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2022/12/casual-shorts-isfdb-top-short-fiction.html>* *Jerry House: "The Florentine Dante" by Fergus Hume <http://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2022/12/short-story-wednesday-florentine-dante.html>* *Tracy K: "Silent Night" and "Wild Mustard" by Marcia Muller <http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2022/12/short-story-wednesday-two-stories-by.html>* *George Kelley: Among Strangers by Robert Silverberg* <http://georgekelley.org/wednesdays-short-stories-104/> *Todd Mason: "The Secret Songs", "237 Talking Statues, Etc." and "The Winter Flies" by Fritz Leiber <https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2022/12/ssw-fritz-leiber-3-autobiographical.html>* *Jeff Meyerson: Babe in Paradise by Marisa Silver (see post comments) <https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2022/12/short-story-wednesday-i-cannot-tell-lie.html>* *Bill Pronzini: The Theme is Murder by Miriam Allen deFord <https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=81887>* *James Reasoner: The Dan Cushman Reader (a study) by Brent D. McCann <https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-dan-cushman-reader-brent-d-mccann.html>* TM https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2015/08/ffb-i-cannot-tell-lie-exactly-and-other.html https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-best-crime-fiction-of-year-annuals.html https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/ (courtesy Tony Baer) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L