Spinetingler online short story nominees announced

Well, it was a very pleasant surprise to learn this morning that my short story “A Wild and Crazy Night” has been nominated for a Spinetinger award in the Best Short Story on the Web category. The story was published last year on the great Beat to a Pulp site. Looking at some of the competition, it’s safe to say that the cliche is true: It’s an honor just to be be nominated.

The annual awards from Spinetingler Magazine are always a great way to catch up on all of the top-notch crime fiction that has been published in the past year. The online short story category nominees were released early to give everyone a chance to read before voting; the rest of the nominations will be announced next week, with readers allowed to vote in all categories at that time.

The other Best Short Story on the Web nominees are:

• “At Least I Felt Something,” by Sophie Littlefield (from The Drowning Machine)
• “Blurred Lines,” by Michael Moreci (from A Twist of Noir)
• “Flesh Rule,” by Frank Bill (from Plots with Guns)
• “Insatiable,” by Hilary Davidson (from Beat to a Pulp)
• “My Father’s Son,” by Alan Griffiths (from A Twist of Noir)
• “M-N-S (n) murder-necrophilia-suicide,” by Anonymous 9 (from Plots with Guns)
• “The Present,” by Mark Joseph Kiewlak (from A Twist of Noir)
• “Survival Instincts,” by Sandra Seamans (from Pulp Pusher)
• “The Tut,” by Paul D. Brazill (from Beat to a Pulp)