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
Amie Whittemore is an educator and co-founder of the Charlottesville Reading Series. She earned her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Smartish Pace, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Yemassee, Cimarron Review, The Hollins Critic, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. She … Continue reading Sideways Lavender by Amie Whittemore
Janet Haigh was raised in the wilds of Tasmania and her writing is full of magic and myth. Her works have been published in Aurealis, Coastlines, The Flash Fiction Press, Newcastle Herald, and the speculative fiction anthology Sproutlings. She currently lives in Newcastle with her two delightful rug-rats and their witty father. I drag the … Continue reading By Anchor and Asphalt by Janet Haigh
J.G. Formato is a writer and elementary school teacher from North Florida. She’s moved far from the lake to a little house in the woods, where she lives with her beautiful family. Her short fiction has appeared in Giants and Ogres(Fairy Tale Villains Reimagined), freeze frame fiction, and Youth Imagination Magazine. I was six when Lake … Continue reading Oh, Keep Me by Jaime Formato