A. Alan Beck
A. Alan Beck's stories have appeared in Artisan, Starry
Night Review, Wilmington Blues, The Missing
Fez, Open Minds Quarterly, and the Taj Mahal
Review. He lives and works in Vancouver (Canada).
Read "Fahrenheit 449 and Rising"
Brad Brown
Brad Brown is a twenty-one-year old originally from Dexter, Missouri.
He is finishing his bachelor’s degree at Truman State University
in Kirksville, Missouri while being a student adviser, writing,
and working on comics of varying quality.
Read "A School of Bunnies"
Luke Buckham
Luke Buckham is a periodically homeless person who writes every
day to keep the world from disappearing. His favorite vegetable
is the artichoke, and his favorite fruit is the pomogranate. He
is irritated with the cowardice of the pre-planned apocalypse.
He currently lives in Keene, NH and works at a pizza restaurant.
His girlfriend and living muse is a bee-keeper who possesses such
a calm, gentle temperment that bees crawl all over her forearms
without stinging her. He has recently published a book of poems
titled "Woke up in Flames" available from James Quinton's
Feel Free Press.
Read his Poetry
Elwin Cotman
Elwin Cotman is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated
from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 with a degree in English
Writing. He currently teaches creative writing in Washington DC.
His stories have been featured in The Front Weekly and
the Fairfield Review.
Read "Sacred Duty"
Utahna Faith
Utahna
Faith has relocated from New Orleans. Her old house and neighborhood
in the Lower Ninth Ward sit abandoned after the massive disorganization
and unkept promises. Utahna's writing appears in RealPoetik,
Smokelong Quarterly, Thieves
Jargon, The New Orleans Review, the anthologies
Flash Fiction Forward and The
Edgier Waters, and elsewhere. She is a co-editor for
3:AM Magazine
and is editor of Wild
Strawberries: a journal of flash fiction and prose poetry.
Read "FEMA Will Call You Three Times"
Jim Musgrave
Jim Musgrave has recently published two new titles, The
President's Parasite and Other Stories
and Iron
Maiden, an Alternate History Novel. He has also launched
his own publishing label at CIC
Publishers.
Read "The President's Parasite"
Valencia Pilgrim
Valencia does not believe in the media, which has desensitized
us to humanity. She works with images and text to uncover the
real message. She is neither artist, poet nor writer, only shares
what she sees.
View her Artwork
J.R.
J.R. is a mysterious figure preserving his anonymity due to forces
beyond his control.
Read "Constitutional Puppies"
Devan Sagliani
Devan Sagliani holds a BA in English from the University of California
Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Word
Riot. He currently resides in Los Muertos where he is
plotting a great and terrible revenge upon the world in literary
form.
Contact Devan Sagliani at: devansagliani@hotmail.com
Read "Pray They Don't Know"
Jeannie Dugan Sanders
jeannie dugan sanders: poet; artist; therapist; and philosopher,
has been writing her entire life. at first it was just letters
to her grandmother. now she writes to understand and as cathartic
release, or just when poems and characters ask to be written.
a love of nature and an insatiable curiosity in the human condition
are her sources of literary inspiration. the author can be contacted
at: pethikemou@gmail.com
Read her Poetry