Thursday, April 02, 2026

Thursday Treats: 4/2/2026

  

The latest reading opportunities…

 

 

SMFS list member Abe Margel announced that his short story, Maddy on the Beach, was published online at Chewers by Masticadores. You can read the story for free here.

 



SMFS list member Jeff Esterholm announced that his latest crime fiction short story, No Quarter, was published online at Literary Garage. You can read it for free here.

 




SMFS list member Margaret S. Hamilton’s short story, A Pinch of Death, was published online at Kings River Life Magazine. This Easter mystery tale can be read for free here.

 



Punk Noir has published, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You #4 — a PUNK NOIR Magazine series. This series of short stories are all free to read online at their website as are the preceding three installments. The market call for the planned May series was also announced here.

 



Author BJ Bourg has another read out in his long running Clint Wolf Mystery Series. Published by Death Shadow Press, LLC, But Not For Cruelty: A Clint Wolf Novel came out last month. This 36th book in the series is available in eBook format at Amazon.

 

 


Also now out is The Uganda Protocol by Jeffrey James Higgins. Published by Severn River Publishing in a variety of formats, this is the fourth book in the Nathan Burke Thrillers series. Available at Amazon.

 





SMFS members Michael Bracken (Death of an April Fool) and Josh Pacheter (Turkish Muscle) have short stories in the latest issue of Black Cat Weekly. You can pick up Black Cat Weekly #239 here.

 



Finally, April 7th sees the release of the short story collection, Hot Shots: Celebrating Thirty Years of the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Editor Josh Pachter has culled through all of the Derringer winning stories over the decades to select one for each year to highlight. Published by Level Best Books - Level Short, the book is currently available to preorder in eBook format at Amazon. Editor Pachter has promised the membership that there the paperback version will be available, but the date is unknown at the time I post this column.

 

 

Until next time….

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

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