M Issue 2

by David Hagerty, Terrie Leigh Relf, Meghan Bird

M is the new horror and mystery magazine from Big Pulp. Published twice annually, each issue contains a mix of horror, macabre, crime and mystery fiction and poetry.

This issue features:
"ForMication, With an M" by David Hagerty
"Dreamstones" by F.J. Bergmann
"Pyramid Scheme" by D.P. Blanchard
"The Medallion" by Terrie Leigh Relf
"Mint" by Meghan Bird
"Going Down" by John Bruni
"BigBucksBlowOut" by James D. Reed
"The Card Counter" by Brian Leopold
"The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" by Joseph Tomaras

And poetry from Holly Day & Joanna M. Weston

106 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 16, 2015

About the author

Stories about crimes have always resonated with me, whether it was Crime and Punishment or The Quiet American. Maybe it’s because I started my career as a police reporter, or because I worked for a time as a teacher in the county jail.

More than a decade ago, when I decided to finally get serious about writing, I started with short stories based on real misdeeds I’d witnessed. I wrote one about my next door neighbor, who’d been murdered by a friend, another about an ambitious bike racer who decides to take out the competition, and a bunch of others based on characters I met in jail.

Over time these got picked up by various magazines online and in print. More than a dozen now exist, with most of the latest in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Big Pulp.

For my debut novel, They Tell Me You Are Wicked, I drew inspiration from the most infamous event in the history of my hometown: the killing of a political candidate’s daughter (though I made up all the details).

Since then, I have added two more books to the series and have the fourth nearly completed..