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J.B. Stevens — Author

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Samples:


To Keep a Secret — 700 Words — Crime/PTSD/Noir — Mystery Tribune — Click HERE to read.


Perhaps my New Year’s Resolution to leave my job as a Mormon Youth Pastor and take over the Miami Drug Trade Was Not Well Thought Out — 900 Words — Comedy — Robot Butt — Click HERE to read.


Crime:


The Hand Print — 300 Words — Vigilante Justice — Summer 2019 Issue — *Winner of Mystery Tribune’s Inaugural Micro-Fiction Contest* 


A Trailer on the Outskirts of Town — 2050 Words — Crime — Trouble No More Anthology from Down and Out Books


The Intolerance — 700 Words — Noir — Shotgun Honey


The Hustle — 100 Words — Crime — Punk Noir Magazine


The Knowledge — 100 Words — Crime — Punk Noir Magazine


The Fighting Squid — 700 Words — Comedy Noir — Shotgun Honey


Clean — 960 Words — Southern Gothic Crime — Mystery Tribune


Big Nasty — 2900 Words — Crime — Yellow Mama Issue 85


The Airport Hilton — 2050 Words — Crime/Noir — Tainted Hearts & Dirty Hellhounds Bristol Noir Anthology 1


A Reliable Belt — 1300 Words — Dark Police Procedural — Mystery Tribune


For the Russians — 900 Words — Espionage — Mystery Tribune


A Meeting at the Dew Drop Inn — 3900 Words — Crime/Noir — Mystery Weekly Magazine


The Naughty List — 700 Words — Christmas Noir — Shotgun Honey


Bobo and the Knife — 530 Words — Crime — Pulp Modern Flash


The Knife Angel — 1200  Words — British Crime — Punk Noir Magazine 


Overpower — 260 Words — Pandemic Noir — The Nonconformist


The Exit — 1600 Words — Drug Dealer — The Means At Hand


A Red Flash — 1650 Words — Fugitive Hunting — Story and Grit


The Lake — 3500 Words — Murder — Mystery Tribune — Summer 2018 print issue


A Good Man — 800 Words — Crime — Out of the Gutter Flash Fiction Offensive 


The Name Tag — 800 Words — Murder — Thriller Magazine — Issue 3 — Summer 2019  Print Issue  


The Orange Key — 3300 Words — Murder — (as Terry Brunt) — O Dark Thirty


A Red Flash — 1650 Words — Hard-Boiled Detective — Blue Room Books Southern Crime Anthology


A Good Man — 960 Words — Crime — Short-Story.me (Reprint)


A Reliable Belt — 1300 Words — Dark Police Procedural — Thriller Magazine — Summer 2020 — Volume 3, Issue 1 Print Issue (Reprint)


Earning — 1000  Words — British Crime — Mystery Tribune  (Reprint)



Comedy:


 5 Signs you inadvertently Joined a Somali Pirate Crew and didn’t board your 4-day and 3-night Carnival Cruise to Nassau — 450 Words — Robot Butt


Ten Classic Children's Book Openings Rewritten by Famous Authors — 800 Words — Comedy — Jane Austin's Wastebasket (co-author Shawn Berman)

 
The Ten Steamiest Passages from Guy Fieri's Upcoming Romance Novel — 700 Words — Comedy — Points in Case (co-author Shawn Berman) 


Five Common College-Bro White Boy Summer Pubic Hair Styles and What They Say About the Owner — 550 Words — Comedy — Word Brothel (co-author Shawn Berman)


Ben Affleck's Ten Step Method for Overcoming Heartbreak — 600 Words — Comedy — The Haven  (co-author Shawn Berman)


The Tooth Fairy Deserves Peace: Stop the Tooth for Cash Trade — 800 Words — Noir/Comedy — Slackjaw


A Note from the Bird Outside Your Window — 700 Words — Comedy — Funny-ish


An Email on my Upcoming Zoom Presentation — Escaping and Avoiding COVID-Specific Doomsday Cults — 500 Words — Comedy — The Daily Drunk


This Veterans Day Remember the Real Heroes — 600 Words — Comedy — The Daily Drunk


Maybe I Don't Want to Be Found — 700 Words —  Comedy — Points in Case



Literary:


Purple Flames — 2000 Words — Literary/War — Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors Volume 11 — Southeast Missouri State University Press — *Runner Up for the Terry Kay Prize*


A Meal with an Iraqi  Woman Named Yonita — 1800 Words — Literary/War — Line of Advance Literary Journal — *Finalist for the Darron L. Wright Award*


The Taste of Cheap Tequila — 1500 Words — The Line Literary Journal/Columbia University


The Hostess Stand — 1300 Words — Literary/Crime — New Pop Lit


The Palm Grove — 3750 Words — War — The Deadly Writers Patrol — Fall 2017 print issue


Dead Camel — 2000 Words — War — Short-Story.me


Okefenokee Freedom — 2000 Words — Prison Break — As You Were: Military Experience and the Arts


A Wartime Breakfast with Ramirez — 1500 Words — Literary/War — Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors Volume 10 — Southeast Missouri State University Press



Narrative Non-Fiction:


The Bunker — 1050 Words — War/ Creative Non-fiction — The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature — October 2019 Issue 


The Mask — 1500 Words — True Crime/ Narrative Non-Fiction — Noir Nation Issue 8- Print/ Thriller Magazine Re-Print 


On the Avoidance of Asset Forfeiture — 1950 Words — Creative Non-fiction — Hoosier Noir's 420 Noir


The Marshal — 770 Words — Historic Non-Fiction Crime — Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine/Wildside Press 

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