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James Blakey lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley where he writes full-time (mostly short genre fiction: Crime/Mystery, SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, Western and Romance.).

His "The Bicycle Thief" won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2019 Derringer Award for Best Flash Story.

When he's not writing, you can find James on the hiking trail (he's climbed 40 of the 50 US high-points) or bike-camping his way up and down the East Coast.

Learn more at his website: http://jamesblakeywrites.com/

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Heartbreaks & Half-truths: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense (A Superior Shores Anthology Book 2) Jun 18, 2020

by Judy Penz Sheluk, KM Rockwood, Paula Gail Benson, James Blakey, Buzz Dixon, Tracy Falenwolfe, Kate Flora, Peggy Rothschild, Blair Keetch, Edward Lodi

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Lovers and losers.

Whether it’s 1950s Hollywood, a scientific experiment, or a yard sale in suburbia, the twenty-two authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of “heartbreaks and half-truths” in their own inimitable style, where only one thing is certain: Behind every broken heart lies a half-truth.

And behind every half-truth lies a secret.

Featuring stories by Sharon Hart Addy, Paula Gail Benson, James Blakey, Gustavo Bondoni, Susan Daly, Buzz Dixon, Rhonda Eikamp, Christine Eskilson,Tracy Falenwolfe, KateFlora, John M.Floyd, J.A. Henderson, Blair Keetch, Steve Liskow, Edward Lodi, Judy Penz Sheluk, KM Rockwood, Peggy Rothschild, Joseph S.Walker, James Lincoln Warren, Chris Wheatley and Robb T. White.

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Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2021 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues Book 73) Aug 30, 2021

by John Floyd, Adam Leeder, Albert Tucher, Sharon Love Cook, Joseph Kuttler, C.L. Cobb, R.T. Lawton, Rosemary McCracken, Vinnie Hansen, Mark Levenson

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At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.

Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery.

In this issue:

Our cover story, “The Delta Princess” by John M. Floyd: When drifter Luke Grayson is attacked by thugs in a small Southern town, he's rescued by a female worker at a nearby cotton plantation—but he soon discovers that his mysterious benefactor has plans that will change both their lives.

“The Story Game” by R.T. Lawton: People sometimes play games with themselves, but these games may be misleading.

“The Earl” by Adam Leeder: A disgraced ex-detective, a seaside flophouse, a favor for a friend … This may not end well.

“The Edge Of The World” by Albert Tucher: In Hilo, Hawaii, criminal defense attorney Agnes Rodrigues finds murder at her front door.

“Mulch Ado About Plenty” by Sharon Love Cook: Mrs. Bullock, neighborhood busybody, knows where the bodies are buried.

“A Real Detective” by Joseph Kuttler: A traffic cop bites off more than he can chew when he stumbles upon a deadly scene in the Grand Canyon.

“A Murder Of Crones” by C.L. Cobb: Never underestimate an old lady. And don’t turn your back on her either.

“The Passenger” by Rosemary McCracken: Pat Tierney is uneasy when her friend, Stéphane, agrees to give a stranger a lift on their return from an out-of-town job fair. An hour later, Pat wishes she'd voiced her objections.

“Try Again” by Vinnie Hansen: In this noir tale, Suzi, a pole dancer, loses her job. She's been duped and manipulated but will take a shot at reclaiming her dignity.

“Final Blow” by Mark Levenson: In a Russian circus long ago, a magician and a strongman have one shared interest: the magician's wife.

“The Case Of The Ripped Off Ruby” a You-Solve-It By James Blakey: When a valuable jewel goes missing, Detective Sally Tilden must sift through a series of suspects to find the thief.

Custom Cover Art by Robin Grenville Evans.

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Wight Christmas: Holiday Horror and Seasonal Subversion (Odds & Ends: Fun, Unique, and Interesting Themed Collections of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Speculative Literature) Dec 10, 2021

by Martin Munks, Brandon Ketchum, Dexter McLeod, Matt Singleton, Sarah Crabtree

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It's not just the weather outside that's frightful! This holiday-themed anthology features 30 shocking and unnerving stories and poems to spread holiday fear. Wight Christmas subverts Christmas tropes, spinning new traditions around murder and monsters, cannibalism and the occult, hostile takeovers and indentured servitude, and yes, even wights.

Wight Christmas includes work by:

Chris Campeau
Warren Brown
Matt Singleton
Jon Hansen
Y Len
Dexter McLeod
C.L. Holland
Stephen Oliver
Martin Munks
Brandon Ketchum
John Lance
Tim McDaniel
James Blakey
Joshua Harding
Shelly Lyons
Andrew Majors
Rainie Zenith
Kara Race-Moore
Carson Buckingham
David F. Shultz
Donna J. W. Munro
Rhian Bowley
Rio Murphy
Alice Loweecey
Stephen Howard
David Tallerman
Jude Reid
Karen Walker
Olin Wish
Sarah Crabtree

With this collection of Ho-ho-horror, you'll be sure to have a very scary Christmas. Also makes a great stalking stuffer!

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The Chorochronos Archives Apr 8, 2021

by Jessica Augustsson, Susanne Hülsmann, Mike Adamson, Maureen Bowden, James Blakey, Bill Hackenberger, R.C. Kjellstrand, David Rogers, Dawn Vogel, Gareth Jones, Lisa Timpf, Matt McHugh, Sandra Bond, Arlen Feldman, Annie Percik, Liam Hogan, Robert Runté, Stella B. James, Paulene Turner, Geoffrey Hart, A.P. Howell, Robert Bagnall, Becca Edney, Stewart C. Baker, Dale Stromberg, Gustavo Bondoni, Michael Baez Arroyo, Matthew Spence, Evan A. Davis, Wendy Nikel, Louis Evans, Nathaniel Lee, James Rumpel, Martin Lochman, Christopher R. Muscato, David Wright

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Time travel. The desire to achieve this stems from the human need to KNOW. What really happened that day? What will happen in the future? How can we put a stop to that bad thing, or achieve this good thing? How will we react if something goes wrong with our attempts to do any of this? How do we get there in the first place? Within these covers, you'll find a whole host of stories investigating these questions and more!

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Crime Travel Dec 8, 2019

by Michael Bracken, Art Taylor, Barb Goffman, Donna Andrews

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CRIME TRAVEL features time-travel mysteries by a terrific lineup of authors.Features an introduction by Donna Andrews.

Included are:

James Blakey

Melissa H. Blaine

Michael Bracken

Anna Castle

Brendan DuBois

David Dean

John M. Floyd

Barb Goffman

Heidi Hunter

Eleanor Cawood Jones

Adam Meyer

Barbara Monajem

Korina Moss

Art Taylor

Cathy Wiley

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Gunsmoke & Dragonfire: A Fantasy Western Anthology Mar 15, 2019

by Diane Morrison, Robert E. Howard, Diana L. Paxson, Milo James Fowler, Ron S. Friedman, Brent A. Harris, Ricardo Victoria, Stanley B. Webb, G. Scott Huggins

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From the drought-plagued plains of Mars, to a post-apocalyptic Canada, to the familiar American West and Mexico, to other dimensions and other worlds weird and wonderful, an international cast of bestselling, award-winning, established, and emerging authors brings you 25 strange western tales:

Robert Lee Beers - A hardboiled P.I. and his partner must find their way back to the present from 1906 San Francisco before the Big One hits, dodging gunslingers and the risk of changing history, with only a drunken misanthropic wizard to help them...
James Blakey - A sheriff must question a colourful cast of characters to discover who has stolen a unicorn rancher's herd...
Zach Chapman - A card-cheating Spellslinger must duel a mysterious Green Gunslinger to his damnation or salvation...
Sara Codair - Two Martian sheriffs must stop a gang of outlaws from stealing a settlement's precious water, if they can keep their marriage together long enough to do it...
Eric S. Fomley - A marshal comes to town seeking an outlaw, but neither he nor the outlaw are the ordinary kind...
Milo James Fowler – Heroic Coyote Cal, the witch Donna Jamieson, and his faithful sidekick Big Yap, must stop a monster from ravaging the livestock and people of a town in the western desert...
Ron S. Friedman - A WWI pilot shot down over the Amazon must survive Germans, crazy scientists, the jungle and dinosaurs...
Carrie Gessner - An elven veteran is called back to face her demons when a little girl is snatched to serve the army that destroyed her...
Paul Alex Gray - The heir to the Bourbon Throne must earn coin in America to overthrow the French Republic and reclaim his birthright, so he builds a fantastic contraption to aid him...
Jude-Marie Green - Sorceress Jane Smith knows her partner Donna Quick is quite mad, but she follows her anyway...
Brent A. Harris - Marshal Bass Reeves has been asked for help by a desperate frontier settlement beleaguered by a dragon...
Ethan Hedman - A wandering gunfighter inherits an enchanted weapon, but it's broken...
Joachim Heijndermans - Two outlaws hole up in a quiet town full of terrified townsfolk, but all is not as it seems...
Russell Hemmell - Two investigators must discover why an entire colony in the Kuiper Belt has disappeared, leaving nothing but an anachronistic western frontier town in its place...
Liam Hogan - A young outlaw is hunted by an implacable mechanical foe...
G. Scott Huggins - A blacksmith with ghostly allies receives an unusual, and dangerous, client...
Sean Jones - The last Norse descendant in North America, who swears vengeance on the Comanche for killing his wife and village, is given supernatural aid by the Navajo...
Mackenzie Kincaid - Junior died helping Pa maintain the fence against the Somethings, so now 12-year-old Jane must take his place...
R. Daniel Lester - An old tap-dancing celebrity defaults on the payments for his magical shoes, and a repo agent has come to collect...
Diane Morrison - Two young elven Gunslingers must stop a cannibal spirit before it, or the blizzard it brings, kills everyone they know...
Diana L. Paxson - A painter journeys to the Rockies to paint landscapes, and stumbles upon an ancient mystery...
Claire Ryan - Rollo is going to get her giant slug herd in to market, come hell or high water, monster or no monster...
Ricardo Victoria - An ex-spellslinger has taken up a career as a travelling salesbeing of a newfangled weapon called a "rifle"...
Stanley B. Webb - A U.S. Marshal must stop a notorious outlaw who may or may not be a dragon...

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Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2017 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues Book 25) Aug 30, 2017

by D White, Erik Deckers, Greg Herren, James Blakey, Peter Hayes, Lani Steele, Kerry Carter

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At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers.

The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.

Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery.

In our cover feature story, D.S. White provides a rollicking caper with “Clowns On The Run”: A carload of clowns tries to elude capture before they can break open a safe full of loot.

Lani Steele’s “How Mrs. Hitt Stopped Scrimping And Found Happiness With A Hit Man” finds Mrs. Hitt a satisfied customer of her mysterious hit man. Then Detective Snapp threatens to ruin everything.

“A Man Is Worth A Thousand Pictures” by Erik Deckers explores Bonnie’s love of a man she's never met, but stalked on camera every time he drives through one of Florida's toll gates. She tries to think of ways they can be together, but can't do anything about it until his wife finally disappears.

In a curious mystery, ““Do Not Pass Go …”” by James Blakey, a stranger arrives in an even stranger town and finds himself embroiled in corruption and murder.

Greg Herren’s “Keeper Of The Flame” challenges you to solve along, when an interview brings back horrifying memories for the daughter of a deceased crime writer.

A darker tale, “A Silver .38” by Peter W. J. Hayes, finds that getting into the mob is easy; it's having a good plan to get out that's hard.

Plus a short You-Solve-It by Laird Long: “Egg On His Face”.

Crimeucopia - As In Funny Ha-Ha, Or Just Peculiar Jul 14, 2021

by Various Authors, Jesse Hilson, Gabriel Stevenson, Maddi Davidson, Brandon Barrows, Robb White, Regina Clarke, Martin Zeigler, K. Anderson, Andrew Hook

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After Monday and Tuesday, even the Calendar says WTF…
There comes a time when the amount of unusual submissions gets you to thinking: How can we use this stuff?
The answer is, of course, when you get enough to put together a collection of short fiction that will hopefully make you go Hmmmmm.
Yet that doesn’t mean every piece in here has been written with a psychotic eye for Avant-garde detail. Okay, maybe some have – the Law of Percentages would dictate for one thing – and there is also the fact that writers are, well, to put it bluntly, often overly surreal in their inventiveness at times.
But that’s certainly no reason to just leave these stories on the side in the hope that they will wander off of their own accord.
Of the 21 writers within these pages, it would be fair to say that none wrote their pieces specifically for this anthology. However, if it had not of been for them taking a gamble, then this collection would not be seeing the light of day.
Jesse Hilson, Gabriel Stevenson, Maddi Davidson, Brandon Barrows, Robb T. White, Regina Clarke, Martin Zeigler, K. G. Anderson, Andrew Hook, Ed Nobody, Jody Smith, Michael Grimala, W. T. Patterson, James Blakey, Emilian Wojnowski, Andrew Darlington, Lawrence Allan, Ricky Sprague, Bethany Maines, John M. Floyd and Julie Richards

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Stories for the Thoughtful Young Oct 9, 2020

by Bob Brown, Diana Payton

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A collection of stories for the young and people who love them. Whether it is succeeding, working together, or simply getting rid of the gremlin that has moved into your attic, these are stories to inspire, entertain, and teach the young mind. Written by award winning writers from around the globe this is an international collection with stories from the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, Canada, Greece, Morocco, United States, and the United Kingdom.You will find yourself experiencing the joy of reading these beautiful stories for the first time and then sharing them with others, whether with your grandchild under a quilt, or gift to someone you know will find joy in the worlds that these wonderful writers have conjured for us all. So whether you are looking for bedtime stories to read, or a book to give your grandchildren, you will find it between these covers

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The Colored Lens: Summer 2020 Jul 9, 2020

by Thomas Ha, James Cato, James Blakey, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, David Vonderheide, Marisca Pichette, Joshua Green, Evan Marcroft, Laura Yash, Steve Haywood

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The goal of speculative fiction has always been to examine the real world through the lens of the imaginary. By considering what could be, we gain a better understanding of what is.

The Colored Lens strives to do exactly that. By publishing short stories and serialized novellas every quarter in genres ranging from fantasy, to science fiction, to slipstream or magical realism, we hope to help our readers see the world just a bit differently than before they came to us.

Featuring works by Thomas Ha, James Cato, James Blakey, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, David Vonderheide, Marisca Pichette, Joshua Green, Evan Marcroft, Laura Yash, Steve Haywood, and Aaron Ward.

Edited by Dawn Lloyd and Daniel Scott

WhoDunit Aug 25, 2021

by Dina Leacock

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An anthology of 34 short mysteries involving a menagerie of animals, some broken machines and a load of red herrings. Let these authors take you on one mysterious adventure after another.

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The Case of The Vanishing Unicorns Aug 3, 2016

by James Blakey

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When a herd of unicorns goes missing, it's up to Sheriff Darius Morgan to sift through a colorful cast of suspects to find the true culprit.

This 7400-word Fantasy, Western, Mystery is suitable for teenagers and adults.

The story previously appeared in the December 2015 Issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine.

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