Samuel Van Pelt’s fiction has appeared in PERIHELION SF, THE MARTIAN WAVE, and is upcoming in others. He holds a degree in computer science and makes his living as a software engineer for a large technology company. He enjoys science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and writes from his home in Seattle. Lily dumped me and, … Continue reading The Witch at Westport High by Samuel Van Pelt
D.A. Gray is the author of one previous collection of poems, Overwatch, Grey Sparrow Press, 2011. His poetry has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Kentucky Review, The Good Men Project, Still: The Journal, War, Literature and the Arts among many other journals. Gray recently completed his graduate work at The Sewanee School of … Continue reading Sirena by D.A. Gray
Angie Rega is a belly dancing librarian with a passion for folklore, fairy tales and furry creatures and grew up in a household where nobody finished a sentence in the same language. She still struggles with syntax. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Future Fire, Crossed Genres, PS Publications, Belladonna Publishing, Little … Continue reading Borrowing Wings by Angela Rega
Premee Mohamed is a scientist and spec fic writer working out of Canada. In her spare time she paints, reads, and anxiously annotates her paperback copy of The Necronomicon in case she’s missed something. “The bees are acting up today,” said Cole’s mother, Agnes, as she knelt to cut the last of the spring rhubarb … Continue reading The Honeymakers by Premee Mohamed
Tory writes, draws, and codes in Los Angeles. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Drabblecast, and PseudoPod, and her art has appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex, and Spellbound. I can’t tell you what it was. All I know is what it did. It was last fall, just before Thanksgiving, and I was putting sheets … Continue reading In the Trunk by Tory Hoke
Anca L. Szilágyi’s fiction appears in Gastronomica, Fairy Tale Review, Washington City Paper, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She is the recipient of the inaugural Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award and has also received fellowships and awards from Made at Hugo House, Jack Straw Cultural Center, … Continue reading Two Origin Stories by Anca L. Szilagyi
Christi Silver is a former editor who now writes realism with a touch of the unreal. She lives in Chicago with her family, and is currently working on her first novel, a noir thriller. She blogs at EditMoi.com. Yasmina Bailey—age sixteen according to her paperwork—was already waiting for Damon Graves when he rustled through his … Continue reading Yasmina Bailey by Christi Silver
Eric Williams is a writer living on the lithified remains of a Cretaceous Seaway in Austin, Texas. His fiction can be found in Noble/Gas Quarterly, Five 2 One Magazine, Mash Stories, People Holding, Wyvern Lit, Oblong, Squawk Back, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Say hello to him on twitter (@Geoliminal). Madame Blavatsky called them “Dwellers on … Continue reading Sweeping the Threshold by Eric Williams
C.M.F. Wright has spent her entire life inhabiting paintings of various sizes and shapes. Occasionally she emerges to teach classes, attend conferences, and publish fiction. Mom’s inside a painting. A Matisse, to be specific. She’s in a copy of the Seville Still Life, asleep on the green sofa. Her arms cushion her head; her legs … Continue reading Blue by C.M.F. Wright
Robin Maginn is an Irish writer, originally from Dublin, but living in London. He was previously shortlisted for the 2010 Aeon Award. Yuzovka was landlocked, so a scent of sea in the air was the first warning that the winds were approaching fast, maybe a day away from the town at most. The faintest taste of … Continue reading The Yuzovkan Event (1985) by Robin Maginn