Archival Post: 2004 SMFS Derringer Awards

Winners bolded:

BEST FLASH STORY (Up to 500 Words)

"All My Yesterdays" by Michael Bracken (2003, Suddenly V)
"Patience" by Nick Andreychuk (Fall 2003, Futures)
"Motive For Murder" by Guy Belleranti (Spring 2003, Futures)
"How to Become a Rodeo Queen" by Michelle Mach (October 2003, Mslexia)
"At Thirty Paces" by Graydon Miller (The Havana Brotherhood)

BEST SHORT SHORT (501 to 2000 Words)

"Nailbiter" by Rob Lopresti (September 2003, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"Coyotes Find" by Gay T. Kinman (February 2003, Detective Mystery Stories)
"Waiter, There's a Clue in My Soup" by Camille LaGuire (Spring 2003, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine)
"Children Seen and Heard" by K. G. McAbee (July 2003, EWG Presents: Without a Clue)
"Packy Run" by Stephen D. Rogers (Spring 2003, Hardluck Stories)
"Silky's Getaway" by Earl Staggs (Summer 2003, Futures)

BEST MID-LENGTH SHORT STORY (2001 to 6000 Words)

"Notions of the Real World" by Dorothy Rellas (Summer 2003, Futures)
"A Mother Scorned" by Michele R. Bardsley (Writer's Digest)
"Big Winner" by Terry Black (November 2003, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"Sara Morningsky" by Lee Driver (March 2003, A Mystery in Mind)
"Wanda Wilcox is Trapped" by Eddie Muller (September/October 2003, Plots With Guns)

BEST LONG SHORT STORY (6001 to 15000 Words)

"The Mask of Peter" by Clark Howard, April 2003, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Bombshell" by Loren D. Estleman (August 2003, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"The Windsor Ballet" by Deborah Morgan (Flesh and Blood: Guilty as Sin)
"Henry and the Idiots" by Robert J. Randisi (High Stakes)
"Amazing Grace" by Harriet Rzetelny (February 2003, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)