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The dark end of the short story shelf

Crime and noir fiction magazine — short stories, criticism and author interviews — The Big Click Mag
CasefileCraft first: how a sentence turns a lit room cold, and what the next line owes it.

The Big Click Mag runs short crime fiction, craft guides for writers, criticism in plain language, and long talks with the authors and small-press editors who work in the dark.

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Pull up a chair. We read for the sentence that turns a room cold, and we publish the craft guides, the reviews and the long interviews that show how the trick is done. If you write this stuff yourself, take this as a table you are welcome to argue across.

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A magazine for the noir shelf

The Big Click Mag is about crime, noir and dark short fiction: craft guides for the people writing it, criticism that says plainly what works, and interviews with the writers and editors keeping the form alive.

It is written for readers in the US who like their fiction with the lights low, and for the people who sit down and make it.

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