The season couldn’t be ascertained. It could have been a warm day in winter or a cold day in spring. It was certainly a holiday, because his whole family – wife Bertha and children Clive and Samantha – were in the drawing room watching TV. But as he sat with…
“… he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.” Proverbs 10:9 The barking shriek punctured early dawn. Towhees were not yet awake to sing summer’s song. A pause in between, and then another. Demonic screaming registered in Hill Carpenter’s waking brain. But the third boastful bark jolted him…
About Adam P. Schmitt has lived outside of Chicago his entire life. His family currently lives in Oswego, IL, where the race of suburbia meets the quiet of farm country. He met his wife on an awful blind date, but since she was after his money and fortune from being…
About Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers for her debut novel My Real Name Is Hanna. Her anthologies include The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning…
About Just who am I? I often wonder that. Writing for me is my passion right now. The thoughts and ideas keep coming, in the middle of the night, on a bus, in a restaurant, walking down the street. I am constantly thinking of stories. Watching people and listening to…
About Award-winning author Irene M. Drago grew up in a Navy family. Before moving to Maine, she worked for the Defense Department as a Russian analyst, earned a Master of Arts degree in Spanish language and literature, and taught at the high school and college level. When she fell under…
Dr. Rankin Williamson Shepherd was in his mid forties with graying black hair, a professionally trimmed beard, and was athletically built. He owned his pharmacy, which was successful, and he hid his upbringing nicely. He was raised deep in the Blue Ridge by a strict but loving father and grandfather. …
About: Bryan W. Alaspa is a Chicago born and bred author of both fiction and non-fiction works. He has been writing since he sat down at his mother’s electric typewriter back in the third grade and pounded out his first three-page short story. He spent time studying journalism and other…
About: When growing up in the Midwest, Allan Woodrow always wanted to be an author. His teachers told him to write about what he knew, but he didn’t know very much. He still doesn’t know all that much, but got tired of waiting and decided to start writing anyway. Allan…
About: Mark Scheel was born and raised on a farm in rural, east-central Kansas. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1967, and spending a period “on the road,” he served overseas with the American National Red Cross in Vietnam, Thailand, Germany and England. He later took graduate studies…
