Fannie and the Back Fence Gang 1

Fannie Airs a Hot Topic

My coauthor-husband Bill Albert and I wrote this story in 1993 for Malice Domestic 3, an anthology of short mysteries now out of print. As I revised it for Short Reads, I kept the technology of that era (think car phones, talk radio), as well as football teams (anybody remember the Houston Oilers?) and  certain famous persons (the Texas governor with the white bouffant hairdo could only be Ann Richards). It’s an example of crowdsourcing, a dozen years before that word was coined. And for me, it’s an experiment in serial fiction. If you like Fannie, maybe she’ll come up with another story. Reading time for Episode One: about 11 minutes.