Back in 2007, D Z Allen’s Muzzle Flash Fiction was the place to find some of the best bite sized crime fiction on the web. Sadly like many things on the web, it just faded away.
D Z’s lost site is one of the many inspirations for Shotgun Honey. Our goal, like Muzzle Flash is to provide a venue for some of the best the web has to offer in short crime fiction. And don’t think just because its short, it’s not satisfying. Some might even argue it’s harder to write a 700 word complete story than a 70k word story.
Do you think you’ve got what it takes? Read the Submission Guidelines.
You may have noticed, but One Eye, Frigga, from the 1974 Swedish movie, THRILLER: THEY CALL HER ONE EYE, is our unofficial mascot. When I see Frigga, I think Shotgun Honey.
So who’s in charge of this place? Glad you asked.
Kent Gowran
Long time reader of all the good stuff: Crime, hardboiled, noir, mystery, suspense… whatever the good stuff is being called at any given moment, Kent longed for a site like Muzzle Flash Fiction. So he came up with the idea to start his own flash fiction site featuring crime fiction. So whatever you think, he’s to blame.
Kent has been known write some, too, just in a far less than prolific manner.
Visit his website: Blood Sweat & Murder
Contact him at: kent@shotgunhoney.net
And on twitter: @kentgowran
Ron Earl Phillips
Wishing he could say he was an ex-Marine or an international spy who will go to no lengths to get the job done, Ron shuffles code around and does the occasional web design. In fact, he designed Shotgun Honey.
When he’s not schlepping at his day job or avoiding doing house work, he writes crime fiction, only occasionally slipping into horror and science fiction.
When Kent announced he was firing up Shotgun Honey, he offered to help. Wasn’t that a mistake? Not really, he loves reading your stories.
Find him at his eponymous website, RonEarl.com.
Contact him at: ron@shotgunhoney.net
And on twitter: @ronearl
Sabrina Ogden
Corrupted by Dan O’Shea, Sabrina, an avid book reader, was turned down the treacherous road of flash fiction crime.
Like Ron, she accidentally offered to help and has become an invaluable asset as editor. She likes to twitter and she’s often smiling.
Her website can be found at My Friends Call Me Kate.
Contact her at: sabrina@shotgunhoney.net
And on twitter: @sabrinaogden
Chad Rohrbacher
Hailing from the home of Jamie Farr, and hoping to be nearly as famous, Chad spent his early years on the mean streets of Toledo, OH. It made such an impression that his forthcoming novel, KARMA BACKLASH, to be published by Snubnose Press, is set in those very streets, and is a revealing tell all of Toledo terror.
As a past contributor, and close friend of Shotgun Honey, Chad was unwillingly indoctrinated into the Shotgun Honey editorial barrel. When he’s not writing or reading future stories, Chad spends his days illuminating the minds of beleaguered college students, and his evening with his estrogen fill family in the wilds of North Carolina.
His website is at the languishing chadrohrbacher.com.
Contact him at: chad@shotgunhoney.net
And on twitter: @chadrohrbacher
Submission Guidelines
- 700 words. Short, Concise and Complete. If it has to go over, it better be damn good.
- We would prefer new material. It cannot appear anywhere in print or online for the last 12 months, unless by invitation.
- No multiple submissions. Submit only one story at a time.
- Submit well edited work. If we like the story and have suggestions, we will let you know.
- Submit your work as a word doc, docx, rtf or as embedded text.
- If accepted we will request a short bio.
- Sorry, we can’t pay for stories at this time.
- You retain all rights to your story. We only ask permission to archive your story on our site.
- Send submissions to: submissions@shotgunhoney.net
