Author Description

Zachary Dilks (from Wire My Scars Electric).. 5Don Beukes (from Icarus Rising)................. 17Ryan Quinn Flanagan (from Hello Brinksmanship)..... 30Bree (From Our Little Hope)..................... 37Holly Day (from The Yellow Dot of a Daisy)... 53Ken Allan Dronsfield (from A Taint of Pity)... 69Rus Khomutoff (from Immaculate Days)...... 76 Gideon Cecil (from A Season to Love).......... 84Ahmad Al-Khatat (from Love on the War's Frontline)............................................. 88Warren Goff (from Mental)....................... 96Mike Zone (from Void Beneath the Skin)..... 106Bud Ogden (from An Occasional Death)...... 120Ammi Romero (from Bartholomew: The Rapture)............................................. 125Thasia Anne (from The Past is Calling)....... 134Mark Hartenbach (from Witness Protection Program)............................................. 140Alex S. Johnson (from Death to Fairy Tales). 149Rob Plath (from Deathbed Colored Glasses). 153Bengt O Björklund (from A Stab in the Dark)..... 171Richard D. Houff (from Adventures in Space and other Selected Casualties)................... 202Jeremy Stolz(from Words Whispered and Screamed.............................................208Adam Levon Brown (from Death is Not Our Holy Word).......................................... 214Andrew Darlington (from Tweak Vision)..... 228Gabriel Bates (from This Space Between Us)....... 247Elancharan Gunasekaran (from Sleeping with Wildflowers).........................................256Honcho Mars (from Madhouse)................. 273R. Keith (from Some Little Pricks)............. 288Matt Borczon (from My Reality)............... 292Stefan Bohdan (from God's Breath)............300