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 The Unicorn Thief by Ashley Barnard. Ashley is the author of four fantasy novels. A recent winner of a short-story contest based in Arizona, she is also a playwright, director and actress. She and her husband James run Actors’ Renaissance Theatre in Phoenix, and juggle writing and theatre with raising their two-year-old daughter Alexandria.
From a distance it appeared that the snow had acquired a life of its own and was moving, so white and pure was the creature approaching them. As it drew closer, features that separated it from its surroundings began to take shape... (continued)
Murder in a Stupor by Rebecca Kane. Rebecca lives in Colorado where she enjoys mountain biking, skiing, hiking and running. In winters, she drives her two teenage children to their various free-style skiing events and in summers, her family travels to mountain biking races that the entire family participates in. Rebecca is a passionate reader of the supernatural, crime, murder and macabre. Favorite works are Daphne du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now, Stephen King’s The Body and The Shining, and Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs.
Jessica leaned out the driver’s side window, her flashlight illuminating my way. "Hurry up!" she whispered vehemently. I crept up onto the front step, grabbed the jack-o’-lantern and cradled it in my arms as I made a mad dash towards the car... (continued)
All's Well by Adam Burnett. Adam Burnett is a long time resident of Hamilton, Ontario, though he has traveled abroad extensively and lived in Japan for two years. He likes flamenco dancing, hang-gliding and woman who are named after automatic weapons. His dislikes include television, early last-calls at bars, and woman who aren't named after automatic weapons. If his life were a video game, he says, it would be Tetris minus the blocks. Personal quote: "It's too bad life never arranges itself exactly like a romance."
As I made my way down the lane leading to the Doc’s home I immediately sensed something different about it. There was something unsettling in the way the house sat so quiet... (continued)
3 AM by Lana Gjovig. Lana Gjovig (the "G" is silent) was born in Alaska and ended up next to the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as South Dakota. With other writers (notably Kathleen Taylor, another transplanted South Dakotan "native") as inspiration, she is striving to become something of an author, with a little success. She's published two stories online, and participated in NaNoWriMo, in which she was a winner having written an entire novel less than a month..
I hate people. When I say that, I usually get a barrage of questions which makes me retract the statement when in polite company. So, I don't say it out loud anymore. I just say it in my head, where no one else can hear and judge... (continued)
MISSED IT IN THE LAST ISSUE?
Well here is another chance to read the Thomas J. Misuraca Interview, author of "Friends of Dracula."
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SPECIAL FEATURE:
THE BRIAN HOLTZ INTERVIEW
Author of HARVEY & ETHEL
The Rental House by Laurie Stevens. Laurie, a native Californian, is a versatile writer whose poetry and non-fiction articles have appeared in such publications as The Los Angeles Times. Television credits include "Voice of New Orleans" hosted by Chris Isaac. Her screenplay, "The Long Way Home," was recently awarded at the 73rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Along with being a wife and mother of two, Ms. Stevens also edits fiction novels. Currently, she is hard at work co-writing a musical.
The vacation was Dad’s fault. I didn’t want to go to Kauai the summer I was sixteen; I wanted to go on weekend trips to Palm Springs with my high school friends... (continued)
The Amateur by Amy Sillup-Wagner. Amy was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1966. She has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (1993) and a Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania (1996). She has worked as an author of "material safety data sheets & labels" for a Philadelphia chemical company, as a patent litigation associate for a small Chicago law firm, and as an intern at Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. The genres that influence and inspire her fiction are horror, dark fantasy, and true crime. She is married and currently resides in Pottstown, PA.
Way back when Theresa Evans was a skinny, scabby-kneed little girl with a penchant for playing hopscotch and a slight, rather endearing stutter, she already knew exactly what she was going to be when she grew up... (continued)
The Mooncalf by Matthew Lee Bain. Matthew is twenty-nine autumns old. His avocations include the study of psychology, German (language and culture), and philology. In his free time, he enjoys strength training, viewing avant-garde cinema, and rolling around on the floor while screaming in agony. Matt's vocations include writing fiction and poetry; he’s a freelance daydreamer of dark fantasies.
There were three that came from the farmhouse, the last night of every month, to tend it. They made their way out of the yard, past the pens and coops, their outlines lit by the flames of the burn barrel... (continued)
Mama's Boy by Carol Stoffel. Carol is a Texas grandmother living in Colorado who likes to write about the heat and mystery of the South while the snow falls outside. The winter white must kindle her imagination because since she has lived in Colorado, she has completed three novels, one of which is with an agent. She dedicates this story to the ladies of Marylin Warner’s Round Table and to her brother, Will Phillips, who gave her the idea for "Mama's Boy."
Ten-year-old Bobby Beaujolais held the screened door open wide so his daddy’s giant Cajun cousin could come down the back steps. Jean LaPierre, who had just delivered a block of ice for the icebox, nodded at the boy... (continued)
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