It’s a Crime!

Back in February, the international competition group Globe Soup sponsored a 7-Day Story Writing Challenge. Each participant was given the theme “A Twist of Fate” and one of twelve randomly assigned genres: Western, Paranormal, Thriller, Magical Realism, Chick-Lit, Historical, Horror, Dystopian, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction or Fantasy. I was assigned the CRIME genre. We were then given 7-days to write a story of no more than 2,000 words. One of the conditions of the contest was that the entries be judged anonymously and could not be published elsewhere until the winner was announced. Well, the winner was announced this week and, although I did not win the £500 First Prize, my short story Roses are Red WAS chosen as a finalist in the CRIME Genre category! My regular reader (he knows who he is) will recall that I was also named a finalist in my first attempt at writing crime fiction last fall, so this small victory was particularly gratifying. I am trying to get this story published in a magazine, so I am withholding the posting of it on this website. Roses are Red is a noir style murder mystery set in 1948 Brooklyn.