Table of Contents

May/June 2026

FICTION

More Than a B-Lister by Robert Greer

The Avenger by Bill Pronzini

The Secret by Sheila Kohler

Home by DK Snyder

The Best and Sweetest Things by Gabriela Stiteler

Promise Not to Tell by Wayne J. Gardiner

Every Day Is Your Last by Kai Lovelace

Spindrift by Marjorie Eccles

Closing the Case by S.B. Watson

A Regular Guy by Chris L. Robinson

The Mystery of Sea and Sky by Charles John Harper

Baby Bird by Derek Alan Jones

Fried French by Anne Swardson

The Preparation of a Galactic Beacon by Scott M. Brents

Speed Trap Camera by James D.F. Hannah

 

DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES

The Whale Pavilion by D.S. Burton

A Better Place by C.J. Neale

 

PASSPORT TO CRIME

The Defixio Murders by Herbert De Paepe

 

POETRY

The End Is Coming Along by Holly Day

Boats on the Wind and Dead Ducks by Slayd Sasser

Agatha Christie Audits My Timesheet by Cate Moyle

Intestate by Robert Wooten

 

SPECIAL FEATURE

2025 EQMM Readers Award

 

NONFICTION AND REVIEWS

Stranger Than Fiction by Dean Jobb

The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock