One Shot Kill #1
A PUNK NOIR Magazine series
Welcome to issue one of One Shot Kill.
Every Friday (Japan Time) I’m going to be bringing you a batch of one hit wonders, one liners and one punch knock outs.
Lines that snap, crackle and POP!
Wit. Lyrical flair. Dark intentioned sentences that are a whole story caged within a scalpel bladed single line.
Punk Noir definitely has some of the most talented contributors out there. Bar none.
Enjoy folks!
Steve – the Ed
– Issue One –
S.D.W. Hamilton, Aimee Kluck, Cindy Rosmus, Steven Lemprière, Elizabeth Dearborn, Kyle Grubb, Ed Ridgley, Offer Kuban, Amy Grech, Autumn Bauman…
Her bullet pierced his heart, but it was the truth she whispered as he died that broke it.
S.D.W. Hamilton is a writer from the North Coast of Northern Ireland.
His debut novel, Blood on The Broadcast, a crime and mystery thriller set in Belfast, released in February 2024.
On their 70th anniversary (platinum), Joe and Maureen Grimes, wracked with aches and pains in a world gone mad, lay in bed and sipped champagne (Dom Perignon) laced with a fatal dose of morphine.
Aimee Kluck has always been writing and telling stories. She recently took the plunge to publish her tales. Her interest lies in how ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary events and must make decisions that will affect their lives, families, friends and communities.
Picturing her decapitated was fun, but hearing her blonde head clunk down the stairs was music to my ears.
Cindy Rosmus originally hails from the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama and has published seven collections of short stories. Cindy is a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal rights advocate.
Loyalty, a one-way street in Frankie’s roadmap, saw a .38, and not alchemy, transform the lead in his partner’s gut to gold.
Steven Lemprière’s work appears or is forthcoming in Punk Noir Magazine, The Literary Garage, Suddenly and without warning. A creative writing course undertaken while a patient at an Irish psychiatric hospital, saw him, shortly after his discharge, short-listed for the New Writers Prize at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
The office glutton always helped herself to anything in the fridge with my name on it, so I filled my personalized water bottle with antifreeze and left for vacation.
Elizabeth Dearborn lives near the Canadian border with her disabled veteran husband. Her fiction has been published in Flashshot, Burst literary ezine, the Drabbledark anthology, the final B.O.U.L.D. anthology, Punk Noir, and elsewhere.
From the sweetness of your kiss, to the small hairs on your thighs, I knew I simply had to feed you, to my fruit flies.
Kyle Grubb is a consulting engineer and part-time writer of adult fiction from Coventry, UK, with my most recent publishing credit being a short story featured in Air and Nothingness Press’ Upon a Thrice Time anthology.
At the author event for my book debut, How to Defeat a Bully, I saw his ghost in the audience, the meat cleaver still parting his hair.
Ed Ridgley (https://linktr.ee/edridgley) is the author of “Dream On” in Janie’s Got a Gun, Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Aerosmith anthology. He won AHMM’s Mysterious Photograph Contest, July/August, 2023, edition.
Now and again, when I’m deep in my drink, you rush back into my mind’s eye with the same calamity of that subway train I’d bumped you in front of.
Offer Kuban is a Canadian author, who works in healthcare by day. He loves multiple genres, including Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but also dabbles in the shadows of Crime & retro-Noir. He also hosts and produces “The Speakeasy: Conversations with the Writing Community” podcast. Twitter: @OfferKuban
Cannibal, hungry for more..inquire within.
Amy Grech, she/her/hers, has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines. Alien Buddha Press published her poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self. Her last name is pronounced, Greck.
Detective Frank whispered his first question to the killer, “Now, where did I put the bleach?”
Autumn Bauman writes time-capsule fantasy and science fiction. She is also the creator of Fablesmithy, a book production company for indie authors.
There are some serious gems in there! I'm wowed!
Sooo sickly good, all of them.