Short Fiction by Jordan Harper
Diamonds, blood and excess body weight: A love story. Selected by the Million Writer's Award as a notable online story of 2006. It will appear in the second Thug Lit anthology, coming in 2009. I'm currently turning the story into a screenplay. (Originally in Thug Lit #10)
An old man goes to see a young one on a piece of business. This story was nominated for a Derringer Award and was selected by The Million Writer's Award as a notable online story of 2005. It will appear in the first Thug Lit anthology, Hardcore Hardboiled, coming out in June 2008. (Originally in Thug Lit #2)
"Plan C"
Every bank robber needs a backup plan. Maybe two. (Demolition, Fall of 2006)
Shermer looks for new friends on the yard at Huntsville. Previously unpublished. The mixture of a totally loathsome protagonist, the white-power backdrop, and a favoring of style over substance made this story hard to place in a publication. It's also probably the most hardcore thing I've ever written, and I'm awfully fond of it, Nazi-warts and all. So here it is. I feel like it would make a good first chapter of an insane novel.
A Brooklyn crack den is no place to get caught slipping when the Yardies come to visit. Written after reading "The Girl Who Played Dead" in the Dallas Observer. (Originally in Out of the Gutter #3)
"I Wish They Never Named Him Mad Dog"
What's in a name? Sometimes, a whole bunch of blood. (Demolition, Winter 2008)
She had an ass like a heart turned upside down and tore in half. And that's what you call foreshadowing, friend. (Originally in Thug Lit #20)