October 29: Bob Carlton
October 29, 2011
We want to crumple / time, fold it / back and in / on itself, // any way // to extend our / journey through / its vast but // limited space.
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Bob Carlton @bobcarlton3 lives a bio-free life in Garland, TX.
October 27: S. Kay
October 27, 2011
“No babies,” she said, smiling at her date. Their server nodded and dipped a net into the tank of wriggling humans.
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S. Kay is a mature @blueberrio.
October 25: Tristin Profitt
October 25, 2011
The reactor pisses green and the dog’s hair mattes. Nibbling on a piece of manbone, the dog thinks, “We were never their best friends.”
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Tristin Profitt @tprofitt is a playwright in North Hollywood. He eats eggs.
October 22: Jennifer K. Oliver
October 22, 2011
Noisy neighbours? Nah, mine are good. Though they are three feet below my patio. Really, it’s the smell that rankles.
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Jennifer K. Oliver is a British fantasy writer. She blogs at http://jenniferkoliver.livejournal.com and Tweets @jenniferkoliver.
October 20: Simon Kewin
October 20, 2011
Worried about burglars, he bought one of the new GM guard dogs. Damn thing was useless. Each head just kept trying to bite the other two.
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Simon @SimonKewin writes fiction, poetry and software. He blogs at http://bit.ly/cXPonH. He still thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
October 18: Shelley Ontis
October 18, 2011
I heard no howl. There’s nothing in those trees. Yes, this is the right path, I say. I smile at the moon, urging you on.
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Shelley (@skayontis) writes about evil entities, monster hunters and giant zombie apes. Her site is at http://havingwritten.com.
October 15: Michael Donoghue
October 15, 2011
“Wow,” she said watching the stars streak by faster than light for 136 day, “You know what this means?” “Yeah, we’ve overshot by 40 years.”
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Michael mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver. His published Twitter stories and micro-fiction can be found at @mpdonoghue
October 13: Shelly Holder
October 13, 2011
We pretended fireflies lived in Daddy’s empty green bottles, stood them upright, and danced in circles by their glow.
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Shelly Holder (@writinflower01) is part imagination and part undergraduate. The rest is still hidden in mixing bowls. http://ow.ly/3nkZF
October 11: Paul Mullin
October 11, 2011
He rose once more to dab the tears from her eyes, staining the tissue rose-red. These weeping statues always had a hard time in therapy.
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Paul @mullinaround blogs at thegermoftheidea.blogspot.com and edits the online literary journal 50 to 1, at 50-to-1.blogspot.com.
October 8: Cat Torres
October 8, 2011
Matter and anti-matter collide. Space and time implode. We kiss, grunt and sigh. Love echoes as it destroys.
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Cat @cattorresv reinvented herself from scientist to lawyer to writer, but is always a wife and mother. www.cattorresv.com