Contributors

Fayaway & Hermester Barrington

Hermester is a retired archivist, a rogue protozoologist, and a deliberately genre ignorant artist, whose ficciones have recently appeared in Fate Magazine, Mythaxis, and Robot Butt. Fayaway, who usually works in ephemeral media only, is a gardener, urban archaeologist, and on again, off again member of the postfolkpunk group Medusa’s Greatgreatgranddaughters. This is the first of their joint projects to be published; their next project is the book Munchausen by Proxy—A Child’s Guide to Getting There First (Golden Press Books, forthcoming Autumn 2023).

David Bradley

David Bradley is a freelance writer with one non-fiction book (The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford) to his credit. His short stories and poetry have appeared in Broken Pencil, The Adirondack Review, Down in the Dirt, Main Street Rag, The South Carolina Review, and Pennsylvania English. He has spent a dozen years as a newspaper reporter and columnist in Northern Virginia.

Daniel David Froid

Daniel David Froid is a writer who lives in Arizona and has published fiction in Post Road, Black Warrior Review, Lightspeed, and elsewhere.

A. P. Howell

A. P. Howell’s jobs have spanned the alphabet from archivist to webmaster. She lives with her husband, their two kids, and a pair of rambunctious puppies. Her short fiction has appeared in various venues, including ParSec, Martian, Dread Space (Shacklebound Books), Bicycles & Broomsticks (Microcosm Publishing), and Darkness Blooms (The Dread Machine).

She sometimes hangs out online on Mastodon (wandering.shop/@aphowell) and her homepage is aphowell.com.

Erik Kollmer

This is Erik Kollmer’s fiction debut. He tells stories with data for a living. That’s what he tells himself anyways. He feels that his data storytelling work does not allow him full narrative control, so his fiction seeks to reclaim that.

Kiya Nicoll

Kiya Nicoll is a writer, poet, and artist living in a New England oak grove. They dabble in a wide variety of assorted obsessions when permitted to do so by the children, the cats, and the limitations of physical embodiment. Their work has previously appeared in magazines including the Escape Pod podcast and several anthologies, most recently Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology.

They can be found at kiyanicoll.com, on Twitter at kiya_nicoll, and in the Fediverse at @gehennan@wandering.shop.

J. P. Oakes

J. P. Oakes is a writer and creative director living on Long Island. His debut novel, City of Iron and Dust is available from Titan Books, and according to Publishers Weekly “offers lovers of the bloody and fantastical plenty to enjoy.”

He can be found online at jpoakeswrites.wordpress.com.

Roni Stinger

Roni Stinger’s fiction has recently been published in Dark Matter Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, and Rewired: Divergent Perspectives in Horror, among others.

Find her online at www.ronistinger.com.

Jason Washer

Jason Washer lives in New Hampshire and divides his time between caring for his family, running a small business, and writing stories late into the night at his kitchen table. His work has appeared in the No Sleep Podcast, Mystery Tribune, Theme of Absence, Bards and Sages Quarterly, and in the anthology In Darkness, Delight: Fear the Future.

Find him on the web at www.jasonwasher.net.

Eric Witchey

Eric Witchey has sold stories under several names and in 12 genres. His tales have been translated into multiple languages, and his credits include over 160 stories, including 5 novels and two collections. He has taught over 200 conference seminars and classes at 2 universities and a community college. His work has received recognition from New Century Writers, Writers of the Future, Writer’s Digest, Independent Publisher Book Awards, International Book Awards, The Eric Hoffer Prose Award Program, Short Story America, the Irish Aeon Awards, and other organizations.

Eric Witchey’s How-to articles have appeared in The Writer Magazine, Writer’s Digest Magazine, and other print and online magazines.