This week's guest is something of an online phenomenon. Her blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind is about as close to THE bee's knees as anything online in the crime world can come to be, without being a podcast, of course. ;-)

But Sarah Weinman is not only a great blogger, reviewer, and collector of all things crime publishing, she's also a superb crime writer. This story, "Blooming," comes from the anthology Hell of a Woman like many of the other stories we've featured. Special thanks again to David Thompson at Busted Flush Press for publishing it and to Megan Abbott for editing.

Direct link to episode 19. Click to listen, right-click to download.

This week's story is guest read by Mae Breakall of Junkie Mae's Chop Shop, a fan-fiction podcast for the work of Scott Sigler. Thanks to Mae for reading and her husband Scott for production.  

Also, there's a new home for online crime fiction in text: A Twist of Noir. Edited by Chris Grant, Twist of Noir brings you crime flash-fiction stories in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 words. You can submit your work by sending it to Chris in the body of an email here. You got flash crime or noir? Send it Chris's way! A Twist of Noir publishes daily!

We're nearing in on episode 20, which will mark the completion of Season One of the WAV. Look for Aldo and I to be taking a break for Thanksgiving and the beginning of December. More on that soon.

Up next: David Corbett

If you've liked this story, Christa Faust's "Cut Man" and Cornelia Read's "Hungy Enough" then support these writers and Busted Flush Press by buying A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir here.