Donna Burgress

The Package

Donna Burgess is an author of dark fiction and poetry who enjoys surfing and all facets of art, from painting to photography.  She has been married for nineteen years and has two children.  She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing.

FUN FACT: Donna also made an appearance in one of the print issues!

Ken Goldman

An Acquired Taste

Ken Goldman,  an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association,  has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore  depending upon his mood and the track of the sun.  His stories appear in over 520 independent press publications in the U.S.,  Canada,  the UK,  and Australia  with over twenty due for publication in 2010.  His book of short stories,  "You Had Me At ARRGH!! : Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman" (Sam's Dot Publishers) remains an all-time top ten best seller at The Genre Mall where (shameless plug alert)  it can be purchased.  Australia's Precision Pictures has contracted Ken's short story "The Keeper" to be filmed (hopefully) during 2010, and Damnation books has contracted his novella "Desiree" for publication during 2010. Ken would be famous except for the fact nobody seems to know who he is.

Terry Grimwood

Demons and Demons

Blues groanin', harmonica playin', college teachin', tea drinkin' English gentleman Terry Grimwood has had his work published in a large number of magazines including Midnight Street, Bare Bone, Nemonymous, Twisted Tongue, HorrorZine, as well as in anthologies such as Paraspheres and Darkness Rising and Now the Nightmare Begins. He has written and Directed three plays, loves to make a fool of himself at the local open mike Jam Nites and is married to acclaimed poet Jessica Lawrence. Terry's anthology "The Exaggerated Man" is available from terrygatesgrimwood@msn.com and also www.lulu.com and his novella "The Places Between" is due out from Pendragon Press in Septemebr 2010.

Amanda Manton

Tequila Sunrise

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.

Florence Ann Marlowe

Peanuts Inside

I've made my living as a writer for the past ten years writing for local newspapers and since 2004 for the news department at a local radio station. However, I've been writing fiction since I was about six.  My favorite authors have always covered a variety of genres, but horror always got the most attention.  I've been published by several online magazines such as Macabre Cadaver, Demon Minds and Psuedopod.  Currently I'm working on a novel.  I live on an isolated 168 acre farm in North Western New Jersey, the perfect location for a horror movie and I am a member of the Garden State Horror Writers association.

Bruce Memblatt

The Box

Bruce Memblatt lives in New York City .His works have appeared in such places as  Aphellion, SNM Horror Magazine, The Horror Zine, and Infinite Windows. In 2010 his stories are scheduled to appear in The Piker Press, A Golden Place, Gypsy Shadow Publishing and in Pill Hill's anthology Pandora's Nightmare to be published this spring and in the Feathertale Review (6) due in bookstores in October 2010.

Elizabeth O'Hara

Jam

Elizabeth O'Hara weaves churrigueresque nonsense and hebephrenic vitriol into a peculiar species of literature. Intercept her brain spurts and cerebral flares at http://radiatorlizard.blogspot.com

M. Shaw

Feral

M. Shaw is a title inherited by each successive owner of a certain bicycle made in Germany in the early 1930's, originally purchased by a Jewish doctor in Berlin as a birthday resent for his son. Only the first three M. Shaws' original names are known to public record, those being the members of the doctor's family who appropriated the bicycle according to their needs at certain times. The fourth through seventh (current) M. Shaws are untraceable, beginning with the theft of the bicycle from the doctor's brother-in-law's apartment in Lima, Ohio.

No scientific explanation has been found for the strange behavior that simply owning the bicycle gives rise to, among which are minor pyromania, liking durian, and requesting to be refered to with the pronoun "it." Narratologists assert that the bicycle is rather a stylistic element, a sort of crude metaphor for the absurd, inexplicable, arbitrary turns of fate that the M. Shaws have no choice but to embrace for the sake of their own survival. Atheists assert that it's just a fucking bicycle and the world would be a much better place without M. Shaw. There's no reason why they can't both be right.

Mark Wolf

Earl and the Alien Encounte

Mark rambles about as a logistics gopher at an eco-tour company in Hawaii when he isn't writing. In other incarnations he has snared pigs, built houses, worked oversees as a missionary, fought forest fires and built wilderness trails.

His published work has appeared at: 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Liquid Imagination, Aurora Wolf, Static Movement, and Goldenvisions.

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