Crime Syndicate Magazine: Issue Two

Crime Syndicate Magazine is back with nine of the hottest crime fiction short stories on the market today. This issue is full of variety with noir stories, transgressive stories, stories about betrayal and lust, heist stories, rock and roll stories and, surprisingly, baseball stories. Prepare to be entertained! A man bets big on the World Series while stuck on the wrong end of a kidnapping (or is he?) in Dietrich Kalteis's "Bottom of the Ninth." A couple of Hawaiian hoodlums are plagued by a negligent disk jockey on the night of their most serious heist to date in Matt Andrew's "The Song Remains the Same." There is no greater loyalty than that between a man and his dog, even under the darkest circumstances, in Mike O'Reilly's "Fight in the Dog." A lonely teen gets way more help than she bargained for in Preston Lang's "The Counselor." Samuel "Sugar" Cane is a hard man, but he's got a sweet spot for taking care of his own in Michael Bracken's "Sugar." Four British twenty-somethings seek Legendary status as they wreak mayhem on their town as well as their own lives, crossing nearly every line of decency imaginable, in Stephen McQuiggan's "Thunderstone." Gentrifiers learn the hard way how things work in their new Boston neighborhood in J.M. Taylor's "Secrets in the Snow." A pair of mysterious women, each with their own agenda, bring tidings of death with them everywhere they go in Jinapher Hoffman's "Jackpot Blue Thistles." A longtime store clerk remembers the rules as he prepares for the inevitable stickup in Nick Kolakowski's "Stickup."