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Myke Amend

Exterminating Angel

I am an illustrator and painter of things that often fall under the categories of “strange fiction”, “horror”, “gothic”, “speculative fiction”, “steampunk”, “clockpunk”, “pulp”, or “science fiction”, or "weird tales", and I tend to do so with a unique and surreal and fantasy art spin. I also like to mix the dark with the lighthearted, the serene with the chaotic, making pieces that can invoke a number of different and opposing thoughts and feelings, depending on the viewer, or their mood for the moment - though mostly a weird combination of peaceful seasoned with uneasiness.... suspense or unexplained anxiety.

My media of choice is typically acrylics, for their faster drying times and my ability to layer on microscopically thin layers and lines with ease. I do love oils also, perhaps more, for their effect - though my oil pieces tend to show up much less often, as they take much longer to create. I do however create the occasional digital piece, typically one or two a year. These dark digital collages are typically items that require digital work for their desired outcome. I love the creative process, whatever I am working in.

I also do woodcarving, carpentry, metalwork, sculpture in metal and in clay, and pretty much everything that involves some physical connection with the work in progress. If it involves blood, sweat, dedication, and some degree of suffering, it appeals to me greatly.  “Hands on” is my mode of choice, leaning towards traditional media for this reason.

Jessica Brown

Contaminant and You May Have Already Won!

Jessica Brown is a thirty-year-old fan of horror and dark fantasy whose works have been featured in Horrotica, The Harrow and The New Flesh, to name a few. She will be published in an upcoming issue of The Nocturnal Lyric and in Pill Hill Press' Twisted Legends anthology. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Holly Day

A Day in the Life of a Man with a Nail Stuck in His Hand

Holly Day lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and two children. Her most recently published books are Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Walking Twin Cities.

D Gavin Guddi

The Reading

IT Consultant by day, putting ghosts in the machines by night, Gavin has been writing fiction for twenty years and is published in MicroHorror, Flashes In The Dark, Mirror-Magazine, and now 69FOP. He is preparing a collection of stories for an anthology and hopes to have a horror/suspense novel out for rejection by early 2010. Yes, he is a realist.

Norm Hendricks 

Logging

Norm Hendricks wrote since he figured out how to work a typewriter. The first short story he wrote; Descent, about a young woman we falls out of a damaged airplane 3,000 feet in the air, was published soon after.  Hendricks finished his first novel; Forever Indian Summer in 1996.  He has since written a second novel; The Forgotten Sleeper and a short story collection titled Monstrous. He is finishing up his third novel Heaven’s Day and recording audio versions of his works.

Norman Hendricks works as a high school English teacher in Kingston, New York where he teaches a senior elective in science fiction.  He holds a Master of English Literature from SUNY New Paltz where he studied under one of the top Hemingway scholars in the world. Taking time to raise young children, Hendricks had taken a break from marketing his short fiction.  Recently, Hendricks has resumed sending out his work to various short story markets and within two weeks of beginning this process, has had his short story Logging accepted by the publication 69 Flavors of Paranoia. 

NP Miller

Too Many Cigarettes

N.P. Miller lives in Winston Salem, North Carolina, where he spends most of his time writing, inciting riots with his girlfriend Ashley, causing a nuisance as a deli clerk in a supermarket, and concocting evil schemes involving vaudevillian llamas at his school where he is going for a degree in language interpretation. He is 22.

Amanda Manton

Skin Deep

Amanda Lee Manton is 19 years old, and lives in Laramie, WY. She's played every Resident Evil and Silent Hill video game, and her favorite show is 'CSI'. Most pictures of her are taken in the bathroom with a cell phone.

Douglas J. Moore

Caitiff Point

Douglas J. Moore is a native New Englander who spends the bulk of his free time wandering in backwoods, former factory towns, and small hamlets of New England. The rest of his time is spent saltwater fishing, reading, and looking for local organic produce. His last published science fiction piece, “The Painting Gun,” appeared in June of 2009 at www.silverthought.com.

A fan of Herman Melville, Isaac Asimov, and George Monbiot, Douglas would certainly like to see a colony on the both the moon and Mars. Douglas also wonders if the flying car will ever become a reality, and if the predictions of Hubbert’s Curve will prove true.

Annastaysia Savage 

The Boyfriend

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, but not being able to stay in one place for too long, I spent most of my life traveling around and scaring people throughout the US.  As of late, I am currently residing in a dark hollow in the mountains of northern West Virginia.  I am addicted to nightmares, things that are rotting, gnarled trees and Edward Gorey.  Black cats, stormy nights and scratching noises at the back door run a close second. I am eclectic, eccentric and very shy, but love to tell ghost stories around the bonfire to those who will listen.  I am in love with all things dark and unnatural.  Please, scare me, I want to tremble. I am also currently in the process of writing a much longer, much scarier story that must be told. It seems to take all my time and alas, I no longer have the occasion for scaring the locals.   A short story I wrote called “Grimalkins” will be out soon in an ezine called Everyday Weirdness. 

Jim Sullivan

The Little Red Book

Jim Sullivan was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin and now lives in Los Angeles.  He has always had a passion for writing, especially scifi and fantasy.  None of his works had ever been published until the good people at 69fop saw fit to publish "The Little Red Book".  He is currently working on his first novel, a fantasy story centering around the birth of an evil demigod.

Carol Weekes

Mama's Boy

Carol Weekes has been publishing short fiction and novels since 1995; she writes mainly in the Horror genre, but has also written Scif-fi, Dark Fantasy, Mainstream, Literary, cross-genre work, and non-fiction. She edited the now defunct speculative fiction magazine, Northern Fusion, in the late 1990's. A first novel, 'Walter's Crossing' was released from NSP Books in 2007. A new, dark novel, 'Ouroboros', co-written with Michael Kelly, is now available through Bloodletting Press. Carol lives in a haunted house, which pleases her immensely, and continues to write more fiction in the vein of things that go ker-bump, 24/7.