"X Marks the Spot"

This story marks an unusual milestone for me: I've now had at least one story published with a title beginning with every letter of the alphabet!

This one's the second time I set something in the town of WaKeeney, Kansas. The first one was "I Call Your Name," which appeared in my Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Beatles anthology. No particular reason to set a second story there, except I needed a cornfield (of which Kansas has plenty!) and I liked the name of the town.

This was my 127th published story and my first sale to Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, appearing in issue #34, which came out in March of 2025.

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