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First Gold
BOB BEACH’S stories have appeared in more than a dozen publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, The Woven Tale Press, and The Penmen Review. He spent many years as a writer and designer for print and film in advertising and enjoyed a brief career as a fine artist. He also taught for many years at Bowling Green State University. He holds BSc and MFA degrees from BGSU and is currently enrolled in the MA Creative Writing program at Wilkes University. He resides in Toledo, Ohio.
Poll Watching
Also going by the moniker of “Ew! It’s Margret!” Margret “The Margret” Treiber has been voted “most likely to display awkward and inappropriate behavior in public” by a random group of drunks downtown. Besides being odd and writing speculative fiction, Margret serves as editor-in-chief for the speculative humor magazine, Sci-Fi Lampoon. When she’s not writing or working at her day job corrupting technology, she helps her birds break things for her spouse to fix.
We Don’t Do Faux
Gordon Sun is a surgeon and clinical informaticist exploring the interstitial spaces between healthcare and technology. His stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, The Dread Machine, Please See Me, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, and other publications.
Tuesday
Cheryl Zaidan is a full-time marketer, part-time writer, constant dreamer and jaded horror addict who has had stories published in several anthologies. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, music, food, yoga and of course horror movies.
The Only Punishment
Ville V. Kokko is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy and an aspiring writer of both fiction and nonfiction living in Turku, Finland. So far, he has had several short stories and articles published in both English and Finnish. Some of his favorite topics to read and write about are philosophy, speculative fiction, and combinations of the two.
Snitch
Charles Williams, a native of Louisiana, retired from a career in real estate finance and took up writing fiction as a retirement avocation. He writes stories emphasizing Louisiana settings, themes, and characters. Other than a self-published novel, Snitch is his “debut” publication, drawing heavily from his knowledge of the duplicity that often underlies big ticket real estate developments. Charles resided in New Orleans for ten years and currently resides in Baton Rouge. He has a B.A. from Centenary College, an M.A. from LSU, and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Words Of The Ancients
T. Lucas Earle is a fiction and TV writer. In his professional life he has been a factory worker, a robot for music videos, a stunt man, and a puppy wrangler. His short stories have been published in Electric Spec, New Myths, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles with a retired racing greyhound.
FEBRUARY 2022 Vol.3, No. 2
