New Story Featured in Bristol Noir Magazine: “Acquiring Experience, Making Friends”

Bristol Noir Magazine -- Scott C Holstad Preview - 3-28-2024 I have a new story titled "Acquiring Experience, Making Friends" featured on the Bristol Noir: Curiously Dark Fiction website. It's a little different than many of my stories published over the past year in that it's a longer work, at 1,500+ words. However, I've been …

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Sporting Mad Swirl Merch

Last month I posted that a story of mine was just published in Mad Swirl magazine. (To go straight to the story, click on this link.) I meant to add, and forgot until now, that they've got cool merch. My post today is a collage of me sporting a Mad Swirl shirt. If you've read …

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“Dollar Storing” Featured in Mad Swirl Magazine

It was my first trip to a dollar store anywhere, this one on Broadway, and she was aghast that I’d never been to one before. Dollar Tree was her idea of a darn good time. I was back in Knoxville after burning through money in Beverly Hills like Satan was after it. Had some good times, paying the price after. …

Surviving It All, Hidden Peak Review, February 15, 2024 (Scott C. Holstad)

New Short Story Featured in February 15 edition of Hidden Peak Review

I have a new story that is currently featured by the Hidden Peak Press (2/15/2024) and scheduled to appear in the next issue of the Hidden Peak Review: "Surviving It All." This is a fairly newish publishing company headed by some experienced professionals with real cred based in the greater metro-Denver area. They do a …

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Short Story (Flash Fiction) in New Winter 2024 Edition of The Bond Street Review

My short story, Phoenix AZ, 3 AM, is in the new Winter 2024 issue of The Bond Street Review. It's a piece of flash fiction, a genre I've been focusing on for the past couple years, getting about 30 stories published in 2023 and hoping for additional growth in that area for 2024. This issue …

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