SLASH - A Rycke Foreman Film

Midori Chen

Forgotten Juliet

Midori Chen attends San Francisco Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, better known as SF's SOTA. She reads everything from Shakespeare to Lovecraft to J.K. Rowling, and she is a poet and playwright as well as fiction writer. She enjoys all genres of writing, and has a collection of tin mint boxes on her desktop. A small jar of lint sits on her dining room table. She has been published in the Umläut literary journal, Issue 2011.

Ron Cruz

Something in the Bone

Ron J. Cruz currently breathes and pens fiction in a hovel located in one of the seedier parts of Sacramento. He's failed at too many vocations to list, but eventually figured out his talents were in words. He's worked as a journalist for the Santa Maria Times, and taught composition classes at California State University, Sacramento. He won the 2009 Bazanella award for graduate short fiction and has had stories published in "Not One of Us," "The Magpie," "Sacramento Today," and "Calaveras Station."

Eric Dimbleby

The Lift

Eric Dimbleby lives and works in Maine. He is a father, husband, and a believer in the power that comes from laughing at death. To learn more about Eric's collected works of horror and the absurd, visit him online at www.ericdimbleby.com.

Kristina Gehrmann

Last Man Remaining

Hi! My name is Kristina, I'm an illustrator with a focus on fantasy, mythology and historical subjects. My preferred media is Photoshop. Originally I'm from a small town near Düsseldorf, Germany. I've always loved drawing and painting, and have been painting digitally for more than 5 years.

I graduated from highschool in 2008 and now I'm studying classical drawing and painting at Angel Academy of Art in Florence, until summer 2011.

Matthew Howe

Link

This is my first bio. Kind of nervous to be honest. Really trying not to slip into 3rd person. Just seems arrogant to me. Invasive Surgery is the first story I've ever written with the intention of publishing it. I'm a huge Lions fan so I know some stuff about horror. I've wanted to be a writer ever since I was a little kid and watched one of the Twilight Zone marathons. The fact that the show had lasted so long and was able to hold my attention even though it was in black and white really struck me. And the endings were great. I loved how you were going down this path and then the writer would just completely shake up the trail at the last second. So the desire to write's been there for some time. But I didn't really get serious about it until my freshman year in college last year. Even that wasn't very serious though, with class and everything. This year I'm doing better. On a strict writing schedule that I'm following suprisingly well. This is my first writing credit but I'm sure it won't be my last.

Mason Kuldinow

Panacea's Gift

Mason Kuldinow is the author of Emissaries of Archeoté, to be released by Wild Child Publishing in 2011. He has short horror and literary stories published in Danse Macabre Online Literary Journal, 4 Static Movement Anthologies, Death Head Grin, and Strange Weird and Wonderful.
He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

J. H. Martin

For the Record

J. H. Martin is from London but lives in China. His poetry and prose have appeared in a number of publications in Asia, Australia, the UK and the USA.

http://thebamboosea.wordpress.com

Jeremy Orr

The Letter Z

James Pratt

Acquisitions, Inc.

I grew up in a small southern town where the only real outlets for my interest in monsters, mythology, and other weirdness were books, Bigfoot sightings, and the occasional alien abduction (good times, good times). Discovering the works of H.P. Lovecraft in my early twenties had a tremendous impact on me. The sheer scope of his imagination, not to mention his ability to instill a sense of hopelessness and dread in the face of the unknown (especially when that face is covered in tentacles), were like nothing I'd ever read before. I do like the good guys to win once and awhile though, and I've learned the importance of strong characters (something which most of H.P.'s stories admittedly lack) so I try not to limit myself to the whole cosmic fatalism thing as a reader and a writer. I didn't really get serious about trying to write on a regular basis till I turned 40 and it really sunk in that I wasn't getting any younger. After about story number twenty, I decided to submit a few stories and see what happens. "Acquisitions Inc." is one of the first stories I've submitted for any sort of publication and the first to be accepted. Groovy.

Philip Roberts

The True Victims

Philip lives in Nashua, New Hampshire and holds a degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Film from the University of Kansas. As a beginner in the publishing world, he's a member of both the Horror Writer's Association and the New England Horror Writer's Association, and has had numerous short stories published in a variety of publications, such as the Beneath the Surface anthology, Midnight Echo, and The Absent Willow Review. More information on his works can be found at www.philipmroberts.com.

Katherine Sanger

Along for the Ride

Katherine Sanger was a Jersey Girl before getting smart and moving to Texas. She's been published in various e-zines and print, including Baen's Universe, Black Petals, Star*Line, Anotherealm, Lost in the Dark, Bewildering Stories, Aphelion, and RevolutionSF, and edited From the Asylum, an e-zine of fiction and poetry.

Her poetry has won numerous awards, including First Place in Byline's "Autumn Poem" contest, First Place in "Lucky Thirteen" contest sponsored by Sol Magazine, and Honorable Mention in: The Houston Chapter Award, The Hap Fulgham Prize, and The "Varoom-Varoom" Award.