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Gary's story, "Searching for Cisa"  appears in the upcoming  Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles , a prose anthology from Moonstone Comics

(check out a larger version by clicking on it) "Beginners Luck" appears in Shades of Black: Crime & Mystery Stories by African American Writers (Berkely Prime Crime 2004).  It features Martha Chainey.  Here's what Publishers' Weekly had to say: [...some of the 22 stories in this excellent anthology are as hard as nails and as noir as a night in Thompsonville (such as Gary Phillips's "Beginner's Luck," which stars Chainey, his no-nonsense former Las Vegas stripper...]  ISBN: 0425194027 


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"The Counterfeit Comrade" appears in Measures of Poison anthology published by Dennis McMillan Publications.  And as Dennis' prerequisite was for stories set in the '30s, this one takes place in Harlem in 1935. The tale introduces a new character, Levi Nefarious Pickett, who will appear in future yarns.  Go to Dennis McMillan

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Check out Gary's foray into the world of comic books with Shot Callerz from Oni Press
"The Raiders," was published in the Flesh and Blood III erotic mysteries anthology in Spring 2003 from Mysterious Press.
Check out a short film, "Sidewinder,"  that Gary wrote. It appears in Freestyle Mega.com
Synopsis: A detective wakes up bound to a bomb in an abandoned warehouse. 
Who did it and will she survive?

"Lowball" a Monk short story, appeared in the 2000 edition of The Mississippi Review Online
 

“Branded”
Flesh and Blood: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion
Edited by Max Allan Collins and Jeff Gelb Warner
(Paperback original--April 2001)
ISBN 0446677779 (to purchase from Amazon, click here)

“The Sleeping Detective”
Shamus nominated short story
Reprinted in World’s Finest Crime and Mystery II
Edited by Ed Gorman, Tor Books, hard and tradepaper, Fall 2001 (originally published in The Shamus Game presented by the Private Eye Writers of America, edited by Robert J. Randisi, September 2000, ISBN 0451201299) (to purchase from Amazon, click here)

"The Measure"
The Blue and the Gray Undercover
All New Civil War Spy Adventures
Edited by Ed Gorman 
Tor Books, hardback, Fall 2001

Hollywood Spring and Axle” in  Sudden Death: Football Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler, New Millennium Entertainment, hardback, August 2002.
"Wild Thang" an Ivan Monk story in After Hours: A Collection of Erotic Writing by
Black Men,  edited by Robert Fleming a tradepaper from Plume, July 2002

"Rio Blanco" in the Guns of the West anthology, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg, Berkley Publishing Group, mass market, August 2002.