Abby Denson is the creator of Tough Love: High School Confidential, Dolltopia, and Night Club. She has scripted Powerpuff Girls Comics, Simpsons Comics, and comics for Nickelodeon Magazine. She rocks out with her bands Abbymatic and The Saturday Night Things. She loves New York, container gardening, and her cat, Slinky.
Carol Emshwiller's most recent books are a novel, The Secret City, a young adult novel, Mr. Boots, and a collection, I Live with You. Small Beer published her novel The Mount and her collection, Report to the Men's Club as well as reprinting her first novel, Carmen Dog.Recent awards include a couple of Nebulas for short stories, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She lives in New York City.
Alice Sola Kim lives in San Francisco and works at a strange startup. Most recently, her job has involved gossiping about Nicole Richie eating a Kit Kat bar. Her work has appeared in Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies, and is forthcoming in Strange Horizons.
Benjamin Parzybok is the publisher of Gumball Poetry, a literary journal published into gumball machines. He founded the Black Magic Insurance Agency which runs a city-wide mystery/treasure hunt called Operation Peachblow. He lives in Portland, OR, with the writer Laura Moulton and their son. He has two novels ready to go: Couch, in which three social misfits carry a couch from Oregon to South America and A Body of Water where a 20-something isn't sure whether to help his brother commit euthanasia.
Corie Ralston is a scientist by profession, although sometimes she wonders what on earth possessed her to go to graduate school. She writes in the spare nanoseconds of her life, in all the transitions, wishing always that there was more time. She has been published in Strange Horizons and a variety of other venues. She is absolutely determined to finish her novel. And she does not need utensils to hear her mother.
Stephanie Brady Tharpe is a lifelong resident of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She spends her time writing, raising her fifteen-year-old daughter, and teaching English and Creatiove Writing at Skyline High School. Her poetry appears in multiple volumes of The Poet's Domain. This is her first fiction publication.
The Best of LCRW is doing fine, thanks for asking. How are you? Did Aunt Gwenda's answer help?
Jeannette Westwood still lives in California. Her newest hobby is stenciling and painting T-shirts.
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Table of Contents
The Night and Day War by Alice Sola Kim
Dear Aunt Gwenda
The Curmudgeon by Adam Ares
The Lake by Matthew Cheney
On a Dark and Featureless Plain by Stephanie Brady Tharpe
Two Variations by Jeannette Westwood
A Primer on New Wave and Speculative Fiction in Japan by Mamoru Masuda
Clay by Kirstin Allio
Two Poems by Lauren Bartel
The Postern Gate by Brian Conn
The Mysterious Mr. M by Abby Denson
The Coder by Benjamin Parzybok
Maps to God by Corie Ralston
The Blokes of Ball Point by Suzanne Baumann
Sanctuary by Carol Emshwiller
Today's Writers Today
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