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
Duncan lives and writes in South Portland, Maine, where he works from home while catering to the needs of three small mammals (two of them human). Find more of his stories at www.duncanwhitmire.com and follow him on Twitter at @duncanwhitmire. Steven will probably quit when he gets to the new office. He’ll probably never even … Continue reading Five Hundred Years and Back by Duncan Whitmire
Nicole Janeway lives in Barcelona, where she writes for citypassproject.com. She loves dogs, running in the mountains, and café con leche. Her writing has appeared in Cicada and Scarlet Leaf Review. “My grandfather’s clock was too tall for its shelf, so it stood ninety years on the floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, … Continue reading Treasure and Pride by Nicole Janeway
Toti O’Brien was born in Rome, and lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Indiana Voice, Surreal Poetics, LitBreak, and Door Is A Jar, among other journals and anthologies. More about her can be found at totihan.net/writer.html I’ve made my bed in the workshop, right under the window. The glass panes are coated … Continue reading Long Distance by Toti O’Brien