They hit my hips with a hammer. Oh, the pain, the cracking, the bits of bone flying. Then they told me I’d failed the Bone Density Test.

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Joanna Bressler has published, will perish, and hopes to do better in her next lifetime, preferably lived on another planet.


gas prices soaring / sleep disorders on the rise / the end of our world

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Milo James Fowler (@mfowler76) is a teacher by day, writer by night. Stop by anytime: http://www.milo-inmediasres.com/


weight of exhaustion / hallucinations rampant / spread those wings and fly

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Milo James Fowler (@mfowler76) is a teacher by day, writer by night. Stop by anytime: http://www.milo-inmediasres.com/

July 18: A.G. Carpenter

July 18, 2012


Fearing cannibals, they steered the lifeboats east across the Pacific. When the food ran out, lots were drawn over who they would eat first.

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A.G. Carpenter writes fiction of (and for) all sorts. She likes movies where things explode, the color black and Twitting @Aggy_C

July 13: Jan Brown

July 13, 2012


Arrested for bank fraud, the time traveler had lived a lifetime since he left last night. His victims didn’t recognize him in the lineup.

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Jan Brown is a sometime writer, poet, singer. She blogs at http://mezzojan.wordpress.com.

July 12: Deborah Drake

July 12, 2012


You tell him he’s dead with your blood painted on his wall. He awakens when I enter and blames me. Rest easy—I will fulfill your prophecy.

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Deborah Drake (@DeborahDrake_1) is a horror author living in upstate New York.

July 11: Jan Brown

July 11, 2012


After a long trip in hypersleep, she was greeted by a multipod, each tentacle massaging her. Inter-species marriage was a GREAT idea!

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Jan Brown is a sometime writer, poet, singer. She blogs at http://mezzojan.wordpress.com.

July 10: Grove Koger

July 10, 2012


After a final daring performance / without a net / before an audience of thousands / the tightrope walker bowed deeply and / flew away

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Grove Koger is the author of a survey of travel literature, When the Going Was Good (Scarecrow Press, 2002).

July 6: Cameron Suey

July 6, 2012


Streetlight projects a silhouette on the blinds. My heart frosts over. It is only the outline of a man, but this is a third floor window.

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Cameron Suey (@josefkstories) is a writer, father, and husband living in San Francisco. You can find him at thejosefkstories.com.

July 5: Cameron Suey

July 5, 2012


When the sun failed to come up one autumn morn, we burned coal, wood, and our money. By winter, we were burning each other.

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Cameron Suey (@josefkstories) is a writer, father, and husband living in San Francisco. You can find him at thejosefkstories.com.

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