July 2012 (Issue 3)

Issue Three of The Big Click opens with Jim Nisbit’s “Note From Earth,” a dystopian vision of the future where ice is money and night doesn’t always arrive, and continues with Wayne Allen Sallee’s “In The Shank of The Night,” the story of a beat cop’s last case—and why it was his last. Also, in “Being Thrawed,” Tom Piccirilli compares being an author to a form of medieval torture.

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Note from Earth

by Jim Nisbet

First performed by David Schein directed by the author for High Ledges, Soft Shoes at Studio Eremos San Francisco, December 9, 1985. the memory of your lips smoking in the wreckage of the twentieth century. And I, the wilted swain beyond its end, proclaim there’s only one step after this: the land of unpromised unbliss… This […]

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July Editorial

by The Editors

It’s a cliché to say that such-and-such writer is “the best-keep secret” in noir, and Jim Nisbet does not abide clichés, so we won’t say anything other than that if you’ve not read one of Nisbet’s darkly beautiful and often hilarious novels, you should, right now. But first read his story “Note From Earth,” right […]