Patricia Abbott: *Lost in the City* by Edward P. Jones; <https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-lost-in-city.html> *Out of the Woods* by Chris Offutt <https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-out-of-woods.html> *(tough to stay on track anywhere...TM)* Tony Baer: *Hotel Room* <https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=83795> by Cornell Woolrich <https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=83795> *(arguably a collection of linked stories, arguably a novel about a hotel room and its occupants...TM)* * <http://galacticjourney.org/april-10-1968-things-fall-apart-april-1968-amazing/>* *Joachim Boaz: Fireflood and Other Stories by Vonda McIntyre <https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2023/05/07/book-review-fireflood-and-other-stories-vonda-n-mcintyre-1979/>* *John Boston: Amazing Stories, April 1968, edited by Harry Harrison <http://galacticjourney.org/april-10-1968-things-fall-apart-april-1968-amazing/>* *Brian Busby: "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1948, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.) <https://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2023/05/that-only-mother-best-of-best.html>* *Paul Fraser: "LOL, Said the Scorpion" by Rich Larson <https://sfshortstories.com/?p=6695>**and "Sensations and Sensibility" by Parker Ragland (Clarkesworld, May-June 2023, edited by Neil Clarke) <https://sfshortstories.com/?p=6702> * *Rich Horton: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1958 and May 1961, edited by Robert P. Mills <https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/14/retro-review-two-emfsfsem-from-robert-p-mills-editorship/>* *Jerry House: "The Screwiest Job in the World" by Bill Pronzini (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1969, edited by Edward L. Ferman); <https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-screwiest-job-in.html> "The Rats of Limbo" by Fritz Leiber (Fantastic, August 1960, edited by Cele Goldsmith); <https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-screwiest-job-in.html> "How Does That Make You Feel?" by "Jeffery Hudson" (Michael Crichton) (Playboy, November 1968, fiction editor Robie Macauley) <https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2023/05/bits-pieces.html>* *Finnigan Houston: The Room Opposite by F. M. Mayor <https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=9697>* *Kate Jackson: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1951, edited by Frederic Dannay <https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/a-year-with-ellery-queen-mystery-magazine-april-1951/>* *Tracy K: Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith <http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-tiny-tales-by.html>* *Colman Keane: "The Long Drop" by Jake Hinkson (Beat to a Pulp: Superhero, 2012, edited by David Cramner and Scott D. Parker)* <http://col2910.blogspot.com/2023/01/jake-hinkson-long-drop-2012.html> *George Kelley: The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss; <http://georgekelley.org/wednesdays-short-stories-125-the-collected-enchantments-by-theodora-goss/> **"Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek" by Gareth Roberts (a chapbook) <http://georgekelley.org/wednesdays-short-stories-124-i-am-a-dalek-by-gareth-roberts/>* *S. E. Lindberg: Darker than Weird by John R. Fultz <https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/06/new-treasures-emdarker-than-weirdem-by-john-r-fultz/>* *Todd Mason: "The Altruist" by Charles Portis (Trumpet, February 1965, edited and published by Tom Reamy) and a link to Library of America's celebration of Portis; <https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-altruist-by.html> **Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1955, edited by Frederic Dannay; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1955, edited by "Anthony Boucher" (William White); Epoch, Autumn 1955, edited by Ronald Sukenick among many others; <https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/05/ssw-epoch-fall-1955-ed-ronald-sukenick.html> * *Fantastic, August 1960, edited by Cele Goldsmith (Lalli); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961, edited by Robert P. Mills (featuring Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" among other notable work) <https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2021/09/kurt-vonnegut-robert-bloch-fritz-leiber.html>* *"Olman Feelyus": "Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 1989, edited by Stanley Schmidt); <https://olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2023/05/44-vor-game-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold-and.html> The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; <https://olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2023/05/49-wind-in-willows.html> National Lampoon: The Paperback Conspiracy e <https://olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2023/05/47-paperback-conspiracy-by-various.html>**dited by Brian McConnachie <https://olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2023/05/47-paperback-conspiracy-by-various.html>* *John O'Neill: Kingdoms of Sorcery and Realms of Wizardry, edited by Lin Carter; <https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/12/lin-carters-forgottenanthologies-emkingdoms-of-sorceryem-and-emrealms-of-wizardryem/> Figurehead by Carly Holmes <https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/09/new-treasures-emfigureheadem-by-carly-holmes/>* *"Paperback Warrior": "Black Tears" by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter (Conan the Wanderer, edited by de Camp and Carter, Lancer Books 1968) <http://www.paperbackwarrior.com/2023/05/conan-black-tears.html> * *James Reasoner: New Western, July 1951, editor uncredited; <https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2023/05/saturday-morning-western-pulp-new.html> Real Western Stories, August 1950, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes <https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2023/05/saturday-morning-western-pulp-real.html>* *Jack Seabrook: "The Dusty Drawer" by Harry Muheim (Collier's, 3 May 1952, edited by Louis Ruppel) <http://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-hitchcock-project-halsted-welles.html> (FictionMags Index citations) <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05808.htm#A99>* *G. W. Thomas: Coven 13 as edited by Arthur Landis <https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/sword-sorcery-in-odd-places-1-coven-13/>* *Kevin Tipple: Sordid: Five Crime Stories by Harry Hunsicker; <https://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-review-sordid.html> "Hallowed Ground" by Linda Castillo (a novella e-chapbook) <https://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-story-wednesday-review-hallowed.html>* *"TomCat": The Name is Malone by "Craig Rice" (Georgiana A. R. W. Craig Rice) <https://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-name-is-malone-1958-by-craig-rice.html>* *Talia Tyndall: 10 best short mystery stories so far <https://strandmag.com/my-top-ten-best-short-story-mysteries/>* *Fletcher Vredenburgh: "The Dragon Masters" by Jack Vance (Galaxy, August 1962, edited by Frederik Pohl) <https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/12/fletcher-vredenburgh-on-jack-vances-the-dragon-masters/>* *--TM* *"Stormeye Wormhole" by "Adam Lee Weatherford" (A. A. Attanasio) <https://factorfourmag.com/stormeye-wormhole-by-adam-lee-weatherford/>* *"#415" by James Reasoner <https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2023/05/415.html>* *"The Man with the Golden...Derringer!" by Martin Edwards <http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-man-with-goldenderringer.html>* *Joe Kenney: <http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2023/05/mia-hunter-12-desert-death-raid.html>Desert Death Raid by "Jack Buchanan" (Bill Crider) <http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2023/05/mia-hunter-12-desert-death-raid.html>* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L