Born in San Diego, Ms. Csernica is a genuine California native. She currently resides in the Santa Cruz mountains with her husband, two sons, and three cats. Visit her at www.lillian888.wordpress.com.
“Storm Warning” originally appeared in Magistria: Realm of the Sorcerer, Ricasso Press, January 2009.
Julie C. Day graduated from the Stonecoast M.F.A. program and the Viable Paradise Writers’ Workshop. By day she writes IT documents as well as documents of the more clearly fictional variety. Some of her favorite things include gummy candies, loose teas, and standing desks. You can find Julie online at http://www.stillwingingit.com.
“Unmaking” originally appeared in Issue 9 of Weave Magazine.
Andrew Drilon is a comics creator, writer, and illustrator. He was a recipient of the Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic Fiction Award, a finalist for the Philippines’ Free Press Literary Award, and was named one of 22 ‘Avant-Guardians’ by the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and was a cartoonist for The Philippine Star for six years.
His comics have been featured in Top Shelf 2.0, The Chemistry Set, and Dark Horse Presents. His fiction has appeared in many publications, including The Apex Book of World SF 2 and the Israeli magazine Chalomot Be’aspamia. Andrew is currently working on his first graphic novel, Black Clouds, as well as the 9th volume of Philippine Speculative Fiction, of which he is co-editor.
“Freeborn in the City of Fallacies” was first published in Philippine Genre Stories on October 15, 2011.
Cesar Miguel G. Escaño was in Tacloban, Leyte when Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan hit. He moved with his wife, Jackie, and infant son, Mito, to Tacloban in March 2013. His parents-in-law moved a few months later, in June 2013. His family had 8 months of bliss, followed by 4 hours of terror—the length of time the storm surge lasted. He dedicates his story in this anthology to his parents-in-law, Augusto Z. Santos and Elizabeth Cecilia R. Santos, who were swept away during the storm surge. Their bodies have not been found but their memories remain forever in the hearts of their family and loved ones.
“Tuba Knight” is original to this anthology.
Jeffrey Ford’s short fiction and novels have won the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Edgar Allan Poe Awards, among others. He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County.
He is a constant source of support and encouragement for the Philippine speculative fiction scene.
“The Wish Head” first appeared in his collection Crackpot Palace.
John Grant is the author of some seventy books. His nonfiction has included The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with John Clute), and a series of books on the misuse and misunderstanding of science, begun with Discarded Science and continued most recently with Denying Science. His fiction has included novels like The World, The Far-Enough Window, and The Dragons of Manhattan as well as numerous short stories, some of which have been collected as Take No Prisoners. For his nonfiction work he has received the Hugo (twice), the World Fantasy Award, and a number of other awards and nominations.
His A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir, the largest film noir encyclopedia in the English language, was published in October 2013. He is currently working on a YA book provisionally called The Young Person’s Guide to Bullshit, scheduled for publication in Fall 2014.
“All the Little Gods We Are” appeared in Clockwork Phoenix, edited by Mike Allen, 2008, Norillana Books.
Michael Haynes lives in Central Ohio, where he helps keep IT systems running for a large corporation during the day and puts his characters through the wringer by night. An ardent short story reader and writer, Michael has had stories accepted for publication by venues such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction.
He is the editor for the monthly flash fiction contests run by Kazka Press, co-editor at Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi and is an associate editor for the Unidentified Funny Objects series of anthologies. His website is http://michaelhaynes.info/ and he tweets as @mohio73.
“Scraps” first appeared in Daily Science Fiction on October 4th, 2012.
Berrien C. Henderson lives in the deepest, darkest wilds of southeast Georgia. He teaches high school Literature and Composition with a Southern accent. Berrien’s writing has appeared in such diverse venues as The Journal of Asian Martial Arts, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Farrago’s Wainscot, Fantasy Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, Abyss & Apex, and Jabberwocky. He has a mini-collection of Southern magical realism, Old Souls and the Grammar of Their Wanderings, with Papaveria Press. In his not-so-copious free time, Berrien pursues weightlifting and martial arts.
“Cunning Synchronicity” is original to this anthology
Barry King is an IT consultant to NGOs who was born in Greece and lived in Tunisia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Brunei, and the U.S. before finally settling in his wife’s hometown of Kingston, Ontario and converting to Canadianism. He moonlights for ChiZine Publications and maintains a token online presence at http://barry-king.livejournal.com.
“Arrow” first appeared in The Future Fire in 2012.
Born on Friday the 13th, Rebecca McFarland Kyle has lived with black cats most of her life. She and her husband of thirty years live with four felines between the Smoky and Cumberland mountains.
As a career researcher, she explored diverse subjects, from Oklahoma outlaws to chicken waste recycling. Her serious writing began in the 1990s. She has published both non-fiction and fiction and is currently working on two young adult novels.
“Discipline” is original to this anthology.
Charie La Marr is primarily known as a ghostwriter in the field of sports—mostly baseball. She has had at least one book go to #1 on Amazon in 2 different categories.
Currently working to establish herself as an author in her own name, she has created a genre called Circuspunk (listed at Urban Dictionary) and a book of short stories in the genre to Chupa Cabra called Bumping Noses and Cherry Pie. She also has her first Bizarro book, Squid Whores of the Futon Fish Market in 2014 with JWK Fiction. She has upcoming stories in Alex S. Johnson’s heavy metal anthology Axes of Evil and Shwibly Magazine, James Ward Kirk’s Bones and Ugly Babies 2, In Vein for the benefit of St. Jude’s Hospital, Chupa Cabra’s We Walk Invisible, Dynatox Ministries’ Witches!, Ripple Effect for Hurricane Katrina relief, Surreal Grotesque, Oneiros Books CUT UP! and other anthologies. She was September’s featured writer at Solarcide. She is currently editing a trilogy of Circuspunk anthologies called The New Whakazoid Circus—the Greatest Show on Paper.
A redhead with a redheaded attitude, she lives in NY with her mother and son and fur children Bailey Corwin, Babe Ruth, and Casey Stengel. This story is dedicated to her nephews Paul and Brian, who are Filipino-American.
“A Moment in Time” is original to this anthology.
Susan S. Lara has won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Focus Literary Awards, and the National Book Award for her fiction. Her short stories and essays have been included in various anthologies. She majored in English at the University of the Philippines Diliman, attended the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, and attended the Seminar on Contemporary British Writing at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom through a British Council grant. She held the Irwin Lee Professorial Chair in Creative Writing at the Ateneo de Manila University in 2011. She has served as panelist in various writing workshops, including the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP) Workshop, the DLSU’s Malate Writers Workshop, the University of St. La Salle’s Iyas Writers Workshop, and the Silliman University National Writers Workshop, of which she became director in 2013. She is currently a professional communications consultant with Spark Konzulting and with L.E.A.D Career Mover Corporation, and facilitates writing workshops for corporate clients.
“A G
entlemen’s Agreement” was first published in Mirror Magazine, October, 1997 and was included in her short story collection, Letting Go and Other Stories (University of the Philippines Press, 1997).
Gabriela Lee received a Master of Arts in Literary Studies from NUS (National University of Singapore) under the ASEAN Scholarship grant. Her poetry and fiction have been published in the Philippines, Singapore, and the United States. She was most recently a fellow for the young adult novel in English at the 52nd UP National Writers Workshop. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She can be found online at http://about.me/gabrielalee
“The Nameless Ones” was first published in PGS Online.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, The Apex Book of World SF 2, Robots: The Recent A.I. (anthology), the Weird Fiction Review, and Weird Tales Magazine. In the Philippines, her short fiction has been published in Philippine Panorama, Philippine Speculative Fiction, and on Philippine Genre Stories.
Her essays and reviews have also been published in a variety of venues. She writes a column called Movements which is published online at Strange Horizons.
Rochita currently resides in The Netherlands with her husband and her two children. She is a communications volunteer for a self-help Filipino women’s organization with the goal of empowering Filipinas in the Netherlands and helping Filipinas to integrate into Dutch society.
“The Wordeaters” was first published in Weird Tales #351 in 2009.
Isa Lorenzo climbs mountains whenever she can. She’s worked in journalism and development, and attended the Silliman University National Writers Workshop in 2013. She is currently studying for an MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia.
“Little Italy” is original to this anthology. It is also Isa’s first publication.
Jason Erik Lundberg is the author of several books of the fantastic—including Strange Mammals (2013), The Alchemy of Happiness (2012), and Red Dot Irreal (2011)—as well as the Bo Bo and Cha Cha children’s picture book series and more than a hundred short stories, articles, and book reviews. He is also the founding editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, series editor for The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories, editor of Fish Eats Lion (2012), and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (2008) and Scattered, Covered, Smothered (2004). A graduate of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, Lundberg holds a degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University and currently lives in Singapore.
“Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)” was originally published in Red Dot Irreal, Math Paper Press, October 2011.
Grant Joseph McMaster is the author of Metro 2033: Britannia, part of the hugely popular post apocalyptic Metro 2033 franchise, he is also the author of Whispers and Monolithhuggurat as well as numerous game reviews. Once a resident of Southern Africa, and originally from the now-defunct state of Rhodesia, he has seen suffering and deprivation first-hand and hopes that in some small way the donation of this story will aid the people afflicted by the passage of Yolanda/Haiyan.
“Whispers” was first published in his collection Whispers of a Dying Flame produced by Aetherial Publishing in 2012.
Laura McPhee-Browne
Laura McPhee-Browne is a writer and social worker living in Melbourne, Australia.
She lived in Manila in 2009 and fell in love with the bustle and vibrance of the city.
Laura tweets small stories daily @laurahelenmb.
“Ondoy” is original to this anthology.
Veronica Montes lives in California with her husband and three daughters. Her short fiction has appeared in literary journals including Bamboo Ridge and Prism International; anthologies including Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, Growing Up Filipino I and II, and Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas; and online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
“The Photograph” is original to this anthology.
Todd Nelsen’s literary and film interests include horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He cites Stephen King, Robert E. Howard, Hermann Hesse, and R.B. Clague as influences. He is an avid fan of metal music and currently resides in Denver, Colorado, where he writes, reads, and is constantly fantasizing. His short fiction has been featured in numerous publications, including Bizarro Bizarro and Dark in the Limelight.
“Black Sun” was previously published in Schlock! Bi-Monthly: Issue 1.
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is a Singapore-based Filipino writer. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, the World SF Blog, Expanded Horizons, Bewildering Stories, and The Philippines Free Press, as well as the anthologies The Ayam Curtain, Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction, and Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 6.
“Synchronicity” first appeared in Bewildering Stories in 2012.
Kate Osias has won three Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Gig Book Contest, Canvas Story Writing Contest and the 10th Romeo Forbes Children’s Storywriting Competition. She has earned a citation in the international Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for her story “The Riverstone Heart of Maria dela Rosa” (Serendipity, 2007).
Her latest works appear in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 8 and Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults. Her updated bibliography can be found on her Facebook timeline.
She co-edited the sixth and seventh volumes of Philippine Speculative Fiction, the latter with Alex Osias. Kate is a proud founding member of the LitCritters, a writing and literary discussion group.
Occasionally, she ventures out into the real world to shop for shoes.
“Rescuing the Rain God” was first published in Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 8.
Alexander Marcos Osias has been privileged to have his work appear in print publications (The Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, several volumes of the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology, The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005–2010, Diaspora Ad Astra, and Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults), digital publications (Philippine Speculative Fiction volume 8, Ruin & Resolve), and online venues (Philippine Genre Stories Online, InterNova: International Science Fiction). He is a founding member of the LitCritters writing group, and was the co-editor of Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 7.
“Highway Run” was first published in Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 8.
David B. Ramirez
DAVID B. RAMIREZ is a former molecular biologist who worked on the Human Genome Project and participated in programming for the chronobiologists of EUCLOCK before choosing to focus exclusively on the craft of stories and dreams. His debut novel, a sci-fi thriller entitled The Forever Watch, will be published by Thomas Dunne Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press, in 2014.
You can follow him on his facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/DavidRamirezSFFwriter
“Finding” is original to this anthology.
Matthew Rogers is a bookworm whose life revolves around the written word. He reads from Sci-Fi to Fantasy, from Horror to Literature, and everything in between. He has a runaway imagination that he uses to help him get through his jobs that he works to support his reading habit, his slowly advancing writing career, and someday soon his book review vlogs. He also hopes to one day open a Sci-Fi and Fantasy bookstore, and his blog can be found at http://phasersandspells.wordpress.com.
“We’re All Stories in the End” appeared earlier online at Fiction on Demand.
Joel Pablo Salud is the author of The Distance of Rhymes and Other Tragedies (UST Publishing House, 2013) and Blood Republic (Philippines Graphic Publications 2013). As a member of the Manila Critics Circle he has written an extensive folio of literary reviews for various national publications. His sorties into fiction are the result of rare hours he steals outside
the rough-and tumble-world of assaying politics. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Philippines Graphic, the country’s only newsweekly publication.
“Godsend” first appeared in The Distance of Rhymes and Other Tragedies, UST Publishing House, 2013.
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and game designer from Brooklyn, NY. Over 50 of his short stories have appeared in venues such as Nature, Galaxy’s Edge, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and many more. He’s the editor of Unidentified Funny Objects, an annual anthology series of humorous science fiction and fantasy. His stories are linked at www.alexshvartsman.com
“Life at the Lake’s Shore” originally appeared in the Fish anthology from Dagan Books, edited by Carrie Cuinn.
Vincent Michael Simbulan has won Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Awards for his work in Isaw At Iba Pa, Siglo: Freedom, and Siglo:Passion. He has also received a citation in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for his short story “In the Arms of Beishu.” His fiction has appeared in several volumes of Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology, The Philippines Free Press, The Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, as well as The Farthest Shore anthology and The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005–2010.
He’s a proud founding member of the LitCritters writing group, and has served as editor for A Time for Dragons from Anvil Fantasy, and co-editor of Philippine Speculative Fiction volume 5.
In his spare time Vin likes to cook, read about fantasy worlds that never existed, and is currently addicted to Path of Exile, an online Action Roleplaying Game.
“Silverio and the Eidolon” was first published in the Philippines Free Press on October 13, 2007.
Tim Sullivan’s publishing credits include the novels Destiny’s End, The Parasite War, The Martian Viking, and Lords of Creation, all from Avon Books; The Florida Project, The New England Resistance, and To Conquer the Throne, from Tor; and two anthologies he edited for Avon, Tropical Chills and Cold Shocks. More than forty pieces of his short fiction have been published, as well, including nine in Asimov’s SF and ten in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His latest story, “Through Mud One Picks a Way” is the lead story in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue of the latter periodical. He has been a finalist for the Nebula Award and winner of the Daedalus Award. For many years, Mr. Sullivan reviewed books for the Washington Post. He currently lives in Miami, Florida with his companion, Fiona Kelleghan.
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