Publisher: Lida E. Quillen
Co-Publisher: Ardy M. Scott
Founder & Executive Editor: Babs Lakey
Art Director: Gin E.L. Fenton (GinElf)
Managing Editor: Barry Ergang
Editorial Staff: Virginia Lo Monaco, Marlene Satter, Chick Lang, Mary Schenten, Alfie
Editorial Consultant: Earl Staggs
Artists: Gin E.L. Fenton, Teresa Tunaley, Kevin Duncan, Gavin O’Keefe, Laura Givens, Marcia Borell Teri Santitoro, Vivian Prince, Stephanie Rodriguez, Tracy Flynn
Cartoonists: Kevin Duncan, Vivian Prince, Georiann Baldino, Teresa Tunaley

Cover Artist for this issue
Gin E.L. Fenton (GinELF)

FMAM Website: www.fmam.biz
Webmaster: Catherine Chant
FAME production manager: Ardy Scott
FMAM List Manager: Kimberly Brown
FMAM Masthead Layout & Design: Gin E.L. Fenton (GinElf)

FMAM and FAME
Kingsport, Tennessee
copyright © 2005
Lida E. Quillen and
Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazinestories
stories and artwork © authors and artists

Email: publisher@fmam.biz or
ardy@fmam.biz

Featured Authors...
Teaser: Christmas Comes to Criminal Courts Robert L. Iles
Teaser: All I Want For Christmas Edward Clinton

MYSTERY FICTION
The Protégé Chick Lang
Soothsayer’s Christmas Shannon Riggs
Flash...Tourist Season Stephen D. Rogers
Cold Comfort Lee Barwood
The Other Foot Dan Martin
Dead Man Ringing Robert Mayer
Just A Fisherman Telett Lyketes
What About Mabel? R B Swets
Point of Law Lox Crabtree
Just Desserts Donna M. Recktenwalt
Easy Pickins Steve Andreorio
Darkness Douglas Allen Danielson
The Fall of Pride and Blackman’s Murder Charles E. Schwarz
Doing the Twist Hart Lee Mathis

LITERARY, POETRY, MAINSTREAM...
Teaser: Simplify, Unite, Delight Kristin R. Masterton

COLUMNS - INTERVIEWS - REVIEWS
The Informant Bret Wright
Starfire Mary O’Gara
Sweet Dreams - review - Jackie Fleming
The Crime Lab Guy John L. French
Co-Publisher Ardy Scott
Murder-Go-Round Harriet Klausner

2
12


24
30
37
40
52
60
65
76
81
84
89
95
99
107

74

9
34
39
49
51
110