Edited by Anne Frasier, Deadly Treats features witches, zombies, vampires, food critics, crazy writers, dumb criminals, interfering ghosts, ex-cops, suburban housewives, and aliens.
By Bill Cameron
On the Road to Find Out
A semi-autobiographical story of a boy trying to find a place of his own in a life of constant motion and bursts of violence.
Puppy Love Noir
Three stories about the dark side of young love.
The Practical Christmas
When Mom takes up with a fixer-upper, two kids find out what life with an honest-to-goodness outlaw is really all about: the loot.
First Thrills
Lee Child teams up with the International Thriller Writers for First Thrills, a showcase of many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre.
Coffee, Black
Skin Kadash investigates vandalism at a Portland coffee shop with the help of Ruby Jane, and finds more than he bargained for.
Motion
Distance is magic – sometimes black, sometimes white. Sometimes a little of both. I see this place or that and I think, I could be from there. Lots of places. I build them up in my mind. Mountains. I like the sensation of driving through mountains late at night, light...
Slice of Pie
A cynical and overprotective son tries to save his mother from her own good nature, with violent results.
Kept Woman
Sometimes what we see in other people is only a dark reflection of ourselves.
The Failure of the Persistence of Memory
The dreams that come when the sun is white and the air is still and buzzing and my head slips off an old pillow that has fallen into the light These are the dreams that I attend with pleasure. Sometimes fear. I smell languor in the trees beside a torpid lake. Leaves...