# floyd (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover floyd. Page: Feed: --- ## [Angry Joe Writes A Letter](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/angry-joe-writes-letter.html) _2026-08-21 · Joseph D'Agnese · SleuthSayers_ Months ago, my wife and I were invited to a community fundraiser event that would take place sometime this fall. At the beginning, the emails were somewhat vague because the people organizing it were just feeling everyone out. If they could get a group of writers to commit, would we consider attending to this quasi-literary, quasi-fundraiser thingie for a good cause? We said yes. Throughout the… ## [The Enemy](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/the-enemy.html) _2026-08-20 · Eve Fisher · SleuthSayers_ When you read / write enough literature, you realize that almost all of it involves overcoming an enemy. So pick a good one. There's the villain, the betrayer, the bully, the sociopath, the serial killer (of whom I am sick unto death), the false friend, the false lover, the rival, the Cain to one's Abel, and all the variations on the theme. The enemy is the source of tension, that keeps everyone's… ## [You Are Entitled to Read My Story](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/you-are-entitled-to-read-my-story.html) _2026-08-19 · Robert Lopresti · SleuthSayers_ I am pleased as punch to report that the September/October issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine features "Was That So Hard?" my 45th story there. And since my first appearance in that august journal was in 1981 I can boast an average of exactly one story a year. (We won't discuss how many years I submitted stories there before they bought one.) The idea for this story came from Not Always… ## [Double Dealing](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/double-dealing.html) _2026-08-18 · Mark Thielman · SleuthSayers_ One reason I always liked going to the courthouse was the snippets you'd see or hear while passing down any random hallway. Pick a floor, get off the elevator, and wander. Think of it as trolling for dialogue. Or sometimes it's handed to you. A while back, I was looking at a probable cause affidavit. A PC affidavit, is a document in which a police officer sets out the reasons why the officer… ## [How does my garden grow?](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/how-does-my-garden-grow.html) _2026-08-17 · Elizabeth Zelvin · SleuthSayers_ I think often these days of the famous closing line of Voltaire’s 1759 novella Candide : Il faut cultiver notre jardin . (“We have to cultivate our garden.”) Candide is a satire better known to modern Americans from Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 operetta of the same name. Its protagonist, a naive young optimist, learns through horrific life experience that he can do nothing about war, famine, plague,… ## [The Power of Prepositions](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/the-power-of-prepositions.html) _2026-08-16 · Leigh Lundin · SleuthSayers_ The Power of Prepositions by Leigh Lundin Aladdin, getting along in years, found he was unable to pitch a tent as he had done in his youth. Smart as well as lucky, Aladdin still kept his magic lamp and, frugal with his wishes, one remained. He rubbed his lamp. When the genie appeared, he begged him. “My camel can no longer thread the needle. Can you cure my erectile impotence?” Genie said, “I can… ## [Whoa, Look at THAT!](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/whoa-look-at-that.html) _2026-08-15 · John Floyd · SleuthSayers_ So far this summer, I've spent a lot of time on the computer, especially when it's hot as blazes outside, and at least some of it's been productive. I've written and submitted a lot of stories and SleuthSayers posts, I've done some research for future stories, I've read and sent a bazillion emails, etc. But I have also wasted a lot of time. I'm good at wasting time. My most recent time-waster is… ## [The Gingerbread Man](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/the-gingerbread-man.html) _2026-08-14 · Stacy Woodson · SleuthSayers_ In June, Level Short released Wish Upon a Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by Fairy Tales , an anthology I edited with Michael Bracken. The stories range from light-hearted to noir. Fellow SleuthSayers, Joe Walker , Barb Goffman , and Michael Bracken , share insights about their amazing stories in previous posts and are worth checking out. Deb Goldstein , Tom Milani , and Andrew Welsh- Huggins… ## [When Writing Historical Fiction: It's Better to Travel](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/when-writing-historical-fiction-its.html) _2026-08-13 · Brian Thornton · SleuthSayers_ (It's mid-August and I am enblow deep in end-of-summer projects. Haven't forgotten my promised follow up installment on celluloid Hammett. Will have that for your next go-round. In the interim this is a repost from a while back. Still useful. Hope you enjoy! - B.T.) \[Elmore\] Leonard was originally no more a man of the West than was the Ohio-born dentist Zane Grey. While a kid in Detroit, Westerns… ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Lt4N2Mdj7UYw) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [John Crowley](http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/john-crowley.html) _2026-08-12 · David Edgerley Gates · SleuthSayers_ I’ve been reading Gibbon’s history, Decline and Fall , at bedtime, and I was going to write a SleuthSayers column about it, but over the weekend, John Crowley died. He would have found it entertaining, to hear about the Gibbon. He would have thought it appropriate . \[ CROWLEY ’S HAND & MANUSCRIPT\] I met John in Lenox , Massachusetts – introduced by our mutual friend, the bookseller Matt Tannenbaum…