THUGLIT Issue One (14 page)

“Fuck off.”

Toward the front of the jam, an old lady in a beat up Dodge Omni and Red Sox cap gave me a big thumbs-up.

For some reason, that bothered me.

I could still hear the kids crying when we got back to the bar. I shouldn’t have been able to, but I did.

TO BE CONTINUED
IN
THUGLIT #2

JORDAN HARPER
was born and educated in
Missouri
. He has worked as a music critic and journalist, and is currently a writer for
The Mentalist
on CBS. His nonfiction has appeared in
The Village Voice
and other papers. His fiction has appeared in
Out of the Gutter
and
Crime Factory
, but
Thuglit
is his home.

JASON DUKE
was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army for six years. He was deployed 15 months to
Iraq
from 07-09. Now he lives and writes full-time in
Phoenix
,
Arizona
. His fiction has appeared in
Plots With Guns
,
Thuglit
,
Spinetingler Magazine
,
Crimewav.com
,
Crimefactory
,
Needle Magazine
,
Yellow Mama
,
Darkest Before the Dawn
, and
A Twist of Noir
, among others. He also has stories in the e-anthologies
D*CKED
and
Pulp Ink
which are available on amazon.com.

COURT MERRIGAN
's short story collection,
Moondog Over The Mekong
, is out soon from
Snubnose Press
. He’s a Spinetingler Award nominee with stuff appearing or forthcoming all over. Links at
http://courtmerrigan.wordpress.com
. He also runs the Bareknuckles Pulp department at
Out of the Gutter
and lives in
Wyoming
with his family.

HILARY DAVIDSON
is the author of
The Damage Done
, which won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel as well as a Crimespree Award. Her second novel,
The Next One to Fall
, is a thriller set in
Peru
.

TERRENCE P.
McCAULEY
won the TruTV Search for the Next Great Crime Writer contest in 2008. His manuscript,
The Slow Burn
will be published by Noir Nation Books in Summer 2012. His manuscript,
Prohibition
, will be published in Fall 2012 by Airship 27. A native of the
Bronx
, N.Y., he is curre
ntly working on his next novel.
His
blog can be found
a
t
http://terrencemccaule
y.blogspot.com/
and his email is
[email protected]
.

MATTHEW C. FUNK
is a social media consultant, editor of
Needle Magazine
, and staff writer for
Planet Fury
and
Criminal Complex
. Funk has work featured at numerous sites indexed on his
Web domain
and printed in
Needle
,
Grift
,
Pulp Modern
,
Pulp Ink
and
D*CKED
.

MIKE WILKERSON
was raised in rural
Northwest Kansas
and has
resided in
St. Petersburg
,
Florida
for the past eleven years. His work has appeared in
The Flash Fiction Offensive
as a featured writer, (the original)
Thuglit
,
A Twist of Noir
and
Thrillers, Killers and Chillers
. He is currently working on a crime novel and more of his work can be found on his blog:
Writing The Hard Way
.

JOHNNY SHAW
was born and raised on the Calexico/Mexicali border, the setting for his novels,
Dove Season
:
A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco
, and the upcoming
Big Maria
. He is also the editor and a regular contributor for the fiction quarterly,
Blood & Tacos
. You can follow Johnny’s exploits at
jhonnyshaw.com
or on Twitter at
@BloodAndTacos
.

TODD ROBINSON
(
Editor
) is the creator and Chief
Editor
of
Thuglit
. His writing has appeared in
Blood & Tacos
,
Plots With Guns
,
Needle Magazine
,
Shotgun Honey
,
Strange, Weird, and Wonderful
,
Out of the Gutter
,
Pulp Pusher
,
Grift
,
Demolition Magazine
,
CrimeFactory
and the anthologies
Lost Children
:
Protectors
, and
Danger
City
. He has been nominated for a Derringer Award, short-listed for
Best American Mystery Stories
, selected for Writers Digest's Year's Best Writing 2003 and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011.  The first collection of his short stories,
Dirty Words
is now available as an E-book and his debut novel
The Hard Bounce
will be released in January 2013 from Tyrus Books.

ALLISON GLASGOW
(
Editor
) Hates you.