Larry and Elmer Kelton at the WWA Spur awards banquet in Spokane, Washington (6/19/05). SHORT FICTION A selected bibliography follows with titles listed by date of first publication.   1) "Loretta's Garden" -- Hardboiled issue #06, 6/1993 2) "Daria" -- Terminal Fright, 6/1994 3) "The Hunter" -- Kracked Mirror Mysteries, 1/1995 4) "The Mezzeraut" -- XIZQUIL, 6/1995 5) "The Hawthorne's Wind" -- Terminal Fright, 6/1995 6) "Bad Blood" -- Plot magazine, 9/1995 7) "The Promotion" --Texas Rangers (Berkley Publishing Group), 9/2004                                            (2005 WWA Spur Award winner) 8) "Rattlesnakes and Skunks" -- Out West magazine, 6/2006 9) "The Assignment" -- Map of Murder (Red Coyote Press), 2/2007 10) "The Quarry" -- Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2008 11) "Leave of Absence" -- Amazon Shorts, 9/2006 12) "Call of Duty" -- Amazon Shorts, 11/2006 13) "See Also Murder" -- Amazon Shorts, 12/2006                                   (2007 Derringer Award finalist) 14) "A Rain Dance in Chelsea" -- Amazon Shorts, 6/2007 15) "The Trouble with Wind" -- Boys' Life November, 2009 16) "Silent Hill" -- Ghost Towns , PINNACLE July, 2010 17) "Daddy's Little Girl" -- Mysterical-E, Spring (April) 2008 18) "The Ridges" -- Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies, DAW , October 2009 19) "Lucky is Another Country" -- Lit 103.3, November, 2009 20) "By Way of Angel Mountain" -- Christmas Campfire Companion, Point Yonder Press, 12/2011 21)  "Pushback" -- Lit 103.3, January, 2011 22) "The Last Master of Aeronautical Winters" -- Westward Weird (DAW), February, 2012 23) "Shadow of a Crow" -- Beat to a Pulp, Round 2, FORTHCOMING 24) "Lost Mountain Pass" -- The Traditional West (WF Anthology), July, 2011 25) "The Treasure Box" -- Cactus Country 2 (High Hill Press), FORTHCOMING   26) "The Kill Stand" -- Indiana Crime anthology, January, 2012
****** "[The Promotion] is a terrific short story. Sweazy has a way with mood that is really striking" ---Jim Huang, owner of The Mystery Company and editor of The Drood Review ****** "The best aspect of Sweazy's short story [The Promotion] is the stark and utter realism of his characters." --John Helfers, editor Tekno Books
"The Promotion" - winner - 2005
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