Stone’s Throw 2025 annual anthology
Published December 18, 2025
Print ISBN: 979-8-9938836-1-8; eBook ISBN: 979-8-9938836-2-5
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Welcome to Stone's Throw.
Twelve more tales for your dark delight. Another year of hard-hitting crime fiction and noir.
Now in its third year, Stone’s Throw is the online companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine. Each month, we offered a theme for writers to wax darkly on—war, greed, hubris, pop punk, and the office holiday party. Each month, our writers delivered the goods.
The stories debuted on the web, before landing in the print anthology you now hold. Crack it open and enjoy what comes spilling out.
A year’s worth of bad decisions and desperate people, and you ain’t seen nothing yet.
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
(In order of appearance of work)
LISA ROBERTSON (on Facebook @LisaPooh23) is a magazine editor and features writer living in the middle of nowhere, Texas. You can find more stories from Lisa at Writer's Playground and Next Tribe. When she's not writing, Lisa is usually baking or spoiling her grandson (often with things she bakes).
ANN WUEHLER (on Facebook @AnnRWuehler) has written six novels—Aftermath: Boise, Idaho, Remarkable Women of Brokenheart Lane, The House on Clark Boulevard, Oregon Gothic, The Adventures of Grumpy Odin and Sexy Jesus and Owyhee Days. Her stories have appeared in various venues including Brigid Gate’s Crimson Bones anthology, Along Harrowed Trails, Penumbric, World of Myth, Whistle Pig, Stygian Lepus, and others. You can find her online at annwuehler.wordpress.com.
AD SCHWEISS (on BlueSky @adschw.bsky.social; on Twitter / X @adschweiss) worked as a prosecutor in California for 14 years, with the majority of his time spent handling crimes of intimate partner violence. His short fiction has appeared in RHP Press, Shotgun Honey, BULL, and a few other places. He currently resides in Spokane with his troublesome wife, his troublesome kids, and a well-behaved dog.
BRITTANY HAGUE (she/her; on Instagram @unluckyyarn) works as a graphic artist and short story writer in Seattle, WA where she lives with her husband, two children, and familiars. Her short stories have appeared in the Night of the Geminids and Monster (Hidden Fortress Press) anthologies, Last Girls Club, Willows Wept Review, and Bog Fancy and have been featured on the Kaidankai and Short Story Today podcasts. She is a graduate of film and video at The Rhode Island School of Design. Learn more about her work at https://www.brittanyhague.com/.
TAMMY BLAKLEY (on Bluesky @tammywritesbooks.bsky.social; on Twitter / X @tammy_blakley) lives in the Pacific Northwest where she spends her days writing mysteries or staring out the window at her gorgeous view of Mt. Baker. She completed her first manuscript with no formal training and a total lack of adult supervision. She enjoys the support of her amazing husband who, so far, hasn’t recommended medication. She has previously published stories in Punk Noir Magazine and Urban Pigs Magazine.
JENN HOOKER (she/her; on Instagram @thejennhooker) is an unapologetically queer crime writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. When she's not hatching new schemes or actively writing, she's spending time with her family, tending to her yard, or curled up with a good book.
GABRIELA STITELER (on Instagram @gabrielastiteler) is a writer based in Portland, Maine. Her writing has been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Best of New England Crime Writing, Dark Waters Anthology, Shotgun Honey Presents: At the Edge of Darkness, and Rock and a Hard Place. Gabi is active in and appreciative of the New England crime writing community. Lately, she's been thinking about the role of silence in story-telling and redemptive character arcs.
Raised in New Orleans and Portland, OR, AUTUMN HARRISON (on Instagram @autumnharrisonwrites) is a writer living on the edge of Washington, DC with her two darling daughters, and her boyfriend, the race car driver. A former baker, bartender, and band booker she is a fan of crispy cookies, perfect Manhattans, and live music. She longs for the next stage of her life when she can fill her days with motorcycling, knitting, and writing about imperfect people living imperfect lives.
S. B. NOLEN (on Bluesky: @sbnolen.bsky.social; on Substack: https://sunolen.substack.com/) is a writer and photographer living in a multigenerational, multispecies household on the beautiful Kitsap Peninsula. After years of studying and writing about identity and motivation in social context, she now writes stories of women making space for themselves in the world. It’s way more fun. Her work has appeared in Circle of Seasons and Stone’s Throw.
DEREK ALAN JONES spends most of his time working in a warehouse in Kansas and the rest of it writing speculative fiction. His work has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Apex, and Tales to Terrify, among others. Find it all at DerekAlanJones.com.
AT KESSLER is a writer and documentary producer living in Southern California with her husband, son, and two dogs. When not writing or on set, she can be found in her garden battling aphids. Her writing has appeared in the anthology Six Word Memoir and online.
JAMES D.F. HANNAH (on Instagram / Threads @jamesdfhannah; on Bluesky @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social) is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Henry Malone series, including the novels Behind the Wall of Sleep and Because the Night. His work has been nominated for the Anthony Award and the Pushcart Prize and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery and Suspense; Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine; Eight Very Bad Nights, edited by Tod Goldberg; Playing Games, edited by Lawrence Block; Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, edited by S.A. Cosby; Vautrin; Rock and a Hard Place; Dark Yonder; and The Anthology of Appalachian Writers. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where the bourbon is.