About Joe

JOE DONNELLY is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at Whittier College and the editor of Red Canary Magazine, a digital magazine focused on environmental and social issues. Red Canary has won numerous awards, including best online publication, since its winter, 2020 inception. Donnelly has […]

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Fifty Minutes

Originally published in Slake: Los Angeles, #2 Crossing Over, 2011. Selected for Best American Mystery Stories, 2012, Robert Crais, Editor. By Joe Donnelly and Harry Shannon The client is a balding, sunburned man with soft, forgettable features. Running late, he enters the office at 7:02 p.m. and nearly knocks a small Buddha statue from its […]

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