The awards season continues

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced its finalist for the 2008 Derriger Awards. They are:

Best Story (0 to 1,000 words)
"Saved" by Keri Clark (Fall 2007,Mysterical-E)
"Dreaming of a Spite Christmas" by B.V. Lawson (Winter 2007, Mouth Full of Bullets, )
"A Woman Scorned" by Jillian Berg (Autumn 2007, Mouth Full of Bullets)
"Your New Fan" by Keri Clark (Winter 2007, Mouth Full of Bullets)
"My Hero" by Patricia Abbott (2007, D.Z. Allen’s Muzzle Flash)

Best Story (1,001-4,000 words)
"Brimstone P.I." by Beverle Graves Myers (May 2007, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"We All Come from Splattertown" by Hugh Lessig (July 2007, ThugLit)
"Joyride" by Rick Noetzel (December 2007, Shred of Evidence)
"Handful of Stars" by Jack Hardway (Autumn 2007, Mouth Full of Bullets)
"In the Shadows of Wrigley Field" by John Weagly (November 2007, The Back Alley, )
"The Promise" by Camille LaGuire (March-April 2007, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine)

Best Story (4,001-8,000 words)
"A Trader’s Lot" by Twist Phalen (from Wall Street Noir)
"Devil’s Lake" by John Schroeder (January/February 2007, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine)
"A Private Hanging" by Herschel Cozine (Summer 2007, Mysterical-E)
"Mr. McGregor’s Garden" by Kate Flora (Still Waters)
"Growing Up Is for Losers" by Rosemary Harris (Still Waters)
"The Gospel According to Gordon Black" by Richard Helms (Fall 2007, The Thrilling Detective Web Site)

Best Story (8,001-17,500 words)
"The Bookworm’s Demise" by Beverle Graves Myers (December 2007, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"Paper Walls/Glass Houses" by Eric Shane (June 2007, The Back Alley)
"The Enlightenment of Magnus McKay" by John Burdett (Wall Street Noir)
"Wasting Assets" by Mike Wiecek (September 2007, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"Forget Me Not" by Clifford Royal Johns (Fall 2007, Mysterical-E)

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