“The Ad-Man” by Brad K. Hawley
POETRY: “When I got there, my hands were empty…. with one detective who believed in me, I might have surrendered….”
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Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon
Noir, crime, and mystery short stories, scholarship, and so much more
POETRY: “When I got there, my hands were empty…. with one detective who believed in me, I might have surrendered….”
Read More “The Ad-Man” by Brad K. HawleyPOETRY: “My arm of fire…low and mournful….”
Read More “Peacemaker” by Gary D. RhodesNONFICTION: “Welles’s war-time writings demonstrated his concern that America, even as it celebrated military victory, might, in its naiveté, overlook the possibility of a rebirth of ‘fascism in America’ which could take root among ‘the sons of America’s first families.’ It is the ways in which Welles blends such historical concerns to various ongoing cultural traditions that make The Stranger a far more important film noir than has been generally thought….”
Read More “The Stranger and the Etiquette of Post-War Life” by Richmond B. AdamsNONFICTION: “The Sleeping City, like so many crime dramas that labored away in the era, won’t make most noir fans’ top ten lists. But its marketing was reflective of its time, more than most noirs that started out trying to hold their theater marquees alone and ended up as the underside of drive-in double bills….”
Read More “Marketing The Sleeping City to The City That Never Sleeps” by Kurt BrokawINTERVIEW: “The part that’s most interesting thing to me and that’s never really surfaced is what happened after the murders….”
Read More “The Wonderland Murders: an Interview with Michael Connelly” by Roger LeatherwoodFICTION: “Delores didn’t want to think about what she was. Her job was done now, anyway….”
Read More “Boilermaker” by Susan HammermanFLASH FICTION: “They know everything. I should leave town pronto….” –February 12
Read More “A Bleak 2020 Begins: from Status Update” by George TolesPOETRY: “Nobody laughed when everybody laughed….”
Read More “Eldritch” by Gary D. RhodesThe sergeant of the watch…stumbled onto the once-enchanted house…. We pulled up at the oxbow bend in the driveway paved with crushed sugar shards. The officers secured the crime scene, unspooling yellow tape between candy canes large as lamp standards. I lit a cigar to cover the smell of death and gingerbread. “What do we […]
Read More “Death and Gingerbread” by Joseph HirschShe was staring the way a novel does that no one will ever open…. I learned a lot about hunger early on. It was the way cancer ate, always starving, feeding on my grandmother in the bedroom down the hall from mine. It was the last month and the only time she lived with us. […]
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