The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved
Published December 8, 2023
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There's always money to be made telling rich people what they want to hear, and rich people want to hear they're rich because they're better. The One Percent is a dose of truth - the super-rich are both a symptom of a country gone off the rails, and, in many cases, the cause. Greedy and vampiric, they have polluted our waters, raped our land, and profited from untold amounts of spilled blood. And that’s before we examine their shitty behavior as individuals.
Inside:
—You can afford an African safari, but you can’t pay a craftswoman what her work is worth?
—Who cares if you made your money selling weapons of mass slaughter? Somebody does.
—If you’re not using that kidney, or even if you are…
—The good part about crypto is no rules. Funny, that’s the bad part too.
16 stories detailing the most vile of the most privileged wait inside, and, maybe, a little bit of payback, too.
Contributors:
C.W. BLACKWELL (Twitter: @CW_Blackwell) is an American author from the Central Coast of California. His recent short stories have appeared with Reckon Review, Shotgun Honey, Tough Magazine, Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, and Mystery Magazine. He is a 2021 Derringer award winner and 2022 finalist. His fiction novellas Song of the Red Squire and Hard Mountain Clay are available where books are sold.
SCOTT VON DOVIAK (Twitter: @vondoviak)’s twenty-year pop culture writing career includes three books, and stints as a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a television reviewer for The Onion's AV Club. His short stories have appeared in Tough, Shotgun Honey, and Rock and a Hard Place, among others. His debut novel Charlesgate Confidential was named one of the top ten crime novels of 2018 by the Washington Post. His follow-up Lowdown Road is now available from Hard Case Crime. He lives in Austin, Texas.
ESTHER MUBAWA (Twitter: @EMubawa) is the pen name for a Zimbabwe woman who lives in Cape Town. She writes about the lives of Zimbabwean women. She has published stories in several magazines, including Faultline, Common House, The Hooghly Review, Guernica, and Pikers Press. She hopes to soon have enough published stories to put together in a collection.
JAMES D.F. HANNAH (Twitter: @jamesdfhannah) is the Shamus Award-winning author of the Henry Malone series, including the novels Because the Night and She Talks to Angels. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022, edited by Steph Cha and Jess Walter; Playing Games, edited by Lawrence Block; Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, edited by S.A. Cosby; Vautrin; Shotgun Honey; and The Anthology of Appalachian Writers. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where all the bourbon is.
AD SCHWEISS (Twitter: @ADSchweiss) is a trial lawyer who lives and works in Northern California.
THOMAS TRANG (Twitter: @heyThomasTrang) is a French/Vietnamese writer currently living in the UK after stints in New York and Singapore. His stories have previously appeared in FutureQuake, Shotgun Honey, and the Revolutions 2 anthology. He is currently working on a SF trilogy which mixes cyberpunk with the gritty realpolitik of The Wire.
MEIRAV DEVASH (Twitter: @MeiravDevash) and EDDIE McNAMARA (Twitter: @EddieMcNamara) are writers living in New York City. They're currently working on a satanic panic horror novel together. They share a bank account and would both appreciate it if you bought a copy of Eddie’s novel, Brooklyn Hardcore.
ANDREW RUCKER JONES is a former IT dweeb and American expatriate living in Germany with his Georgian wife and their three children. His greatest literary achievement to date is authoring ninety-eight iCloud reminders for every household chore from cleaning sinks to checking smoke detectors. Learn more at http://selfdefeatistnavelgazing.wordpress.com/
SAM WIEBE (Twitter: @sam_wiebe) is the author of the Wakeland novels, one of the most authentic and acclaimed detective series in Canada. He also writes (allegedly) as Nolan Chase. A Lonesome Place for Dying comes out May 2024 from Crooked Lane.
CURTIS IPPOLITO (Twitter @curtis9980) is the author of the crime novel Burying the Newspaper Man. He is an Anthony Award Finalist (2023) and Derringer Award Finalist (2023). He is a member of Sisters in Crime and serves on the board of the San Diego SinC chapter. Learn more about him at curtisippolito.com
TIM P. WALKER (Twitter: @walkertimp) is currently celebrating the fact that the student loans he was paying for over half his life are no more. His work has appeared in such publications as Rock and a Hard Place, Out of the Gutter, and the late great Baltimore City Paper. He has also had his short fiction published in several anthologies, including Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression and the 2023 Bouchercon anthology, Killin' Time in San Diego. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
JESSE LEE, who publishes novels and poetry under another name, is originally from the Golden State and since childhood has traveled widely. Currently Jesse writes noir and dances hip hop in New York City.
SEAN LOGAN’s stories have appeared in more than forty publications, including Black Static, Nightscript, and the anthologies American Gothic, Dark Visions, and Laughing at Shadows. He lives in Northern California with his wife, their five-year-old twins, and a giant white Kuvasz that may be part polar bear.
TOM ANDES (Twitter: @thomaseandes)’ writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2012, Santa Monica Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and many other places. He won the 2019 Gold Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress from the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, a New Orleans-based literary organization. He works as a freelance editor, book coach, manuscript consultant, teaches, moonlights as a country singer, and released his debut EP, “Static on Every Station” on Bandcamp in 2022. He also plays guitar with Emily Neustrom and the Fried Honeys. He can be found at www.tomandes.com
STEVEN-ELLIOT ALTMAN is a bestselling science fiction author and award-winning videogame writer. He’s been trusted with some diverse major brands; including Batman, Sherlock Holmes, Ancient Aliens and The Wizard of Oz. Steve penned and narrative-designed the Facebook sensation Pearl’s Peril, which boasts 90+ million players! His recent game projects include Ancient Aliens: The Game and Project Blue Book: Hidden Mysteries, and his latest game is Terminator: Dark Fate, based on the feature film.
Steven’s novels include Captain America is Dead, Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, Batman: Fear Itself, The Killswitch Review, The Irregulars and Deprivers. In reviews of note his writing has been compared to that of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, and Philip K. Dick, and he has collaborated with world class writers such as Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Harry Turtledove and Dr. Janet Asimov. Steve's latest novel, Severed Wings, is available from WordFire Press.
LIN MORRIS lives and writes in his hometown of Portland, OR. His work has appeared in Unlikely Stories; Trembling with Fear; Flumes Literary Journal; Little Old Lady Comedy; Meet Cute Press; Second Chance Lit; Suddenly and Without Warning; and in the anthologies Flash of Brilliance, Coffin Blossoms, Breathless, TWF v. 3, and Bullshit Lit. His novels Spot the Not and The Marriage Wars are available on amazon.com. He won the 2020 YeahWrite Micro Fiction Competition. He is proudly left-handed and considers this to be his preeminent trait.